Hi,
Holger Wansing <[email protected]> wrote (Sat, 11 Jul 2026 17:47:03 +0200):
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> To be future-safe, you should not go with an ESP partition smaller than
> 768-1000 MB
> these days. Otherwise you risk running into problems, when it comes to kernel
> upgrades
> via UKIs or firmware upgrades of your PC's devices later.
>
> By the way: the same size recommendation counts for /boot as well (if you
> spend a
> separate partition for /boot).
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And if we recommend 768-1000 MB for ESP and /boot, we should better not have an
example partition list with a 16 MB /boot partition :-))
I have updated the example to this century. Patch attached.
Holger
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diff --git a/en/using-d-i/modules/partman.xml b/en/using-d-i/modules/partman.xml
index 3a2133cbe..5e69262ed 100644
--- a/en/using-d-i/modules/partman.xml
+++ b/en/using-d-i/modules/partman.xml
@@ -278,17 +278,17 @@ formatted and where they will be mounted.
The list of partitions might look like this:
<informalexample><screen>
- SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) - 6.4 GB WDC AC36400L
- #1 primary 16.4 MB B f ext2 /boot
- #2 primary 551.0 MB swap swap
- #3 primary 5.8 GB ntfs
- pri/log 8.2 MB FREE SPACE
+ SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) - 32.2 GB WDC AC36400L
+ #1 primary 1.0 GB B f ext4 /boot
+ #2 primary 2.0 GB swap swap
+ #3 primary 25.0 GB ntfs
+ pri/log 4.2 GB FREE SPACE
SCSI2 (1,0,0) (sdb) - 80.0 GB ST380021A
- #1 primary 15.9 MB ext3
+ #1 primary 1.5 GB ext3
#2 primary 996.0 MB fat16
- #3 primary 3.9 GB xfs /home
- #5 logical 6.0 GB f ext4 /
+ #3 primary 51.0 GB xfs /home
+ #5 logical 25.0 GB f ext4 /
#6 logical 1.0 GB f ext3 /var
#7 logical 498.8 MB ext3
</screen></informalexample>
