On Sat, May 09, 2020 at 10:05:40PM -0700, Will Mengarini wrote: > * Rick Thomas <rick.tho...@pobox.com> [20-05/09=Sa 20:05 -0700]: > > [...] died for lack of space in /boot [...] > > Long ago I stopped bothering with a separate /boot, and behold, I yet > live. ISTR the Debian installer doesn't default to creating one either.
Unless you're doing some kind(s) of disk encryption. Which apparently is a thing that some laptop users go for in a major way. As a non-laptop person, my understanding is that, at least with some implementations of disk encryption, you need an UN-encrypted /boot to get the whole thing started. After that, the root file system and any other local file systems can be encrypted, and the code from /boot will be able to prompt you for the passphrase or whatever.
