[Swlug] Boot directory

[Dave Cridland]

On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 at 10:11, Colin Law via Swlug <swlug at mailman.lug.org.uk>
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.
>

I'm not sure that's actually true - in particular, if you don't have a
separate partition for /boot, you won't be able to use full disk encryption
(ie, LUKS and friends), which is particularly important for a laptop.

Dave.
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