On Mon, Sep 22, 2025, at 3:01 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > Should we bump boot volume size for Fedora 43? > > The last time it was bumped, from 500M to 1G, was 2016. There wasn't a > change proposal, it was just suggested we do it on this list, and then > changed. > > While a 1G boot will accommodate 3 kernels and initramfs today, it may > not in the near future. And some folks use kdump which adds more > initramfs to boot. > > We could just double it to 2G, but that seems like overkill for systems > that are resource constrained. Another idea is to bump boot to 1.2G for > Fedora 43. And then commit to revisiting the size more frequently, even > as soon as Fedora 44/45.
I am not opposed to the idea of growing it to 1.2 or 1.5 G by default. However the real 'problem' is people updating from older Fedora's and thus staying on the old size until things no longer fit. We might change the default and document clearly for people running with small XBOOTLDR after updates on how to remedy the issue? Note that Neal also has ideas to move XBOOTLDR into a btrfs subvolume which for many of the default editions and spins would remove the problem entirely. Simon -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
