[Swlug] Boot directory

[Mark Einon]

Be careful doing this!

Not all systems/distros can read all filesystem types prior to initrd
booting (as this is done by the bootloader).

One of the compelling reasons for having a separate /boot is that it's
formatted in a known supported FS, whilst you can have any Linux-
supporting FS for your main partiton.

Mark

On Wed, 2019-09-18 at 10:10 +0100, Colin Law via Swlug wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 at 10:04, Bill Thomson via Swlug
> <swlug at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
> > Hi Colin, that seems to have done the trick! I've freed up in excess
> > of 2Gb in the boot directory - thank you!
> > 
> 
> For future reference I believe it is generally considered better not
> to have a separate partition for /boot as it can give rise to this
> problem.  Just put /boot in the main root (/) partition so that it
> will not fill up.  If it /boot actually fills up completely it can be
> a big pain to recover as you can't then run autoremove, you have to
> manually remove the old kernels.
> 
> Colin
>