Re: Why so big EFI partition?

2016-03-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
al...@otterhall.com wrote: >On 03/03/2016 12:55 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Basically, there are lots of >> reported (real and potential) issues with smaller sizes, so we've >> picked a larger size by default for the guided partitioning. > >I wasn't aware of the potential problems. Funny that Ubun

Re: Why so big EFI partition?

2016-03-02 Thread Albin Otterhäll
On 03/03/2016 12:55 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Basically, there are lots of > reported (real and potential) issues with smaller sizes, so we've > picked a larger size by default for the guided partitioning. I wasn't aware of the potential problems. Funny that Ubuntu's documentation still recommen

Re: Why so big EFI partition?

2016-03-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
al...@otterhall.com wrote: >On 03/02/2016 07:42 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: >> There is no ratio. 500 MB is the generally recommended size for the EFI >> system partition even though the Debian GRUB EFI bootloader needs much >> less, and 250 MB for /boot is one of the questionable arbitrary choices

Re: Why so big EFI partition?

2016-03-02 Thread SamuelOPH
2016-03-02 20:16 GMT-03:00 Albin Otterhäll : > But I don't yet understand why someone would use systemd-boot instead of > the default boot manager instead of the default one? I'm reading the > Arch Wiki article[1], but it doesn't discuss _why_ you would like to use > it. > ​Well, I like to use be

Re: Why so big EFI partition?

2016-03-02 Thread Albin Otterhäll
On 03/02/2016 11:57 PM, SamuelOPH wrote: > ​They are on a "default" use case, but if you're using systemd-boot you are > responsible for configuring a nice way to keep only the last kernel images > on the ESP (it's not hard to do)​ and automagically update it. > > If you're using the Debian's defa

Re: Why so big EFI partition?

2016-03-02 Thread SamuelOPH
2016-03-02 19:42 GMT-03:00 Albin Otterhäll : > Doesn't old kernel images get removed after some time? ​They are on a "default" use case, but if you're using systemd-boot you are responsible for configuring a nice way to keep only the last kernel images on the ESP (it's not hard to do)​ and autom

Re: Why so big EFI partition?

2016-03-02 Thread Albin Otterhäll
On 03/02/2016 11:37 PM, SamuelOPH wrote: > ​I believe you mean ESP (EFI System Partition) Haha, you are correct. :) > [...] this limit will grow with time with initramfs and vmlinuz getting bigger [---] Doesn't old kernel images get removed after some time?

Re: Why so big EFI partition?

2016-03-02 Thread SamuelOPH
2016-03-02 19:31 GMT-03:00 Albin Otterhäll : > So a EPA partition with 128MiB is more than enough? ​I believe you mean ESP (EFI System Partition), and from my point of view (I don't known any case where one should need more) 128MiB is enough with a broad margin.​ Of course this limit will grow w

Re: Why so big EFI partition?

2016-03-02 Thread Albin Otterhäll
On 03/02/2016 11:24 PM, SamuelOPH wrote: > 20MB for storing both files for one kernel version So a EPA partition with 128MiB is more than enough?

Re: Why so big EFI partition?

2016-03-02 Thread SamuelOPH
2016-03-02 19:17 GMT-03:00 Albin Otterhäll : > What does systemd-boot and initramfs do? And how much space does they take? ​First of all, when i said kernel i mean the compressed kernel image (vmlinuz). So these two files are used to boot your system, each opearting system using sysmted-boot sho

Re: Why so big EFI partition?

2016-03-02 Thread Albin Otterhäll
On 03/02/2016 11:05 PM, SamuelOPH wrote: > [---] if you wanna use systemd-boot your kernel and initramfs [---] What does systemd-boot and initramfs do? And how much space does they take?

Re: Why so big EFI partition?

2016-03-02 Thread SamuelOPH
Actually, if you wanna use systemd-boot your kernel and initramfs must be stored on the ESP. But anyway 500MB looks like overkill. Samuel Henrique O. P. [samueloph] Técnico em Informática - UTFPR [2012]. Estudante de Engenharia de Computação - UTFPR. 2016-03-02 19:01 GMT-03:00 Albin Otterhäll :

Re: Why so big EFI partition?

2016-03-02 Thread Albin Otterhäll
On 03/02/2016 07:42 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > There is no ratio. 500 MB is the generally recommended size for the EFI > system partition even though the Debian GRUB EFI bootloader needs much > less, and 250 MB for /boot is one of the questionable arbitrary choices > that the guided mode does for

Re: Why so big EFI partition?

2016-03-02 Thread Pascal Hambourg
> On 02/03/16 08:42 AM, Albin Otterhäll wrote: >> When doing a guided partition when installing debian, the >> debian-installer creates a EFI (/boot/efi) partition with approximately >> 500MB, and a /boot partition with around 250MB. Why this weird ratio >> between them? There is no ratio. 500 MB

Re: Why so big EFI partition?

2016-03-02 Thread Gary Dale
On 02/03/16 08:42 AM, Albin Otterhäll wrote: When doing a guided partition when installing debian, the debian-installer creates a EFI (/boot/efi) partition with approximately 500MB, and a /boot partition with around 250MB. Why this weird ratio between them? To my knowledge only the bootloader(s)

Why so big EFI partition?

2016-03-02 Thread Albin Otterhäll
When doing a guided partition when installing debian, the debian-installer creates a EFI (/boot/efi) partition with approximately 500MB, and a /boot partition with around 250MB. Why this weird ratio between them? To my knowledge only the bootloader(s) in located on the /boot/efi partition, and the

Re: Why so big(2)

2001-08-22 Thread Bruce McIntyre
* dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 03:51:16PM +0100, P Kirk wrote: > > | I don't have anything other than samba and python installed. How can > | /usr/share be so big? > > Actually you have a lot of stuff installed that you don't need if the > machine is only going to b

Re: Re: Why so big(2)

2001-08-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 01:52:54AM +0200, Johnny Morano ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wednesday 22 August 2001 00:18, Karsten M. Self wrote: > (-) > $ dpkg --get-selections | > (-) > grep ' install' | > (-) ^^^ > (-) This should be a tab, not spaces. > or even >

Re: Re: Why so big(2)

2001-08-21 Thread Johnny Morano
On Wednesday 22 August 2001 00:18, Karsten M. Self wrote: (-) > $ dpkg --get-selections | (-) > grep ' install' | (-) ^^^ (-) This should be a tab, not spaces. or even grep '.*install$' to keep it simple ;) -- :---=::=:

Re: Why so big(2)

2001-08-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 11:16:26PM +0100, P Kirk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten, what can I say...thanks. Um... "you goofed the script"? Fixed version is attached, I posted an error to list just a minute ago, but missed my comment '#' installed during testing. I'm seeing this one all the w

Re: Why so big(2)

2001-08-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 02:58:00PM -0700, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > on Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 03:51:16PM +0100, P Kirk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > My apologies for sending an attachemnt but it is only 4.1 k. This is my > > installed list. > > > > /dev/hda2 703M

Re: Why so big(2)

2001-08-21 Thread P Kirk
Karsten, what can I say...thanks. - Original Message - From: "Karsten M. Self" To: "Debian User List" Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 10:58 PM Subject: Re: Why so big(2)

Re: Why so big(2)

2001-08-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 03:51:16PM +0100, P Kirk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > My apologies for sending an attachemnt but it is only 4.1 k. This is my > installed list. > > /dev/hda2 703M 574M 93M 86% / > du -m /usr/399 > du -m /usr/src/ 173 > du -m /usr/share148 >

Re: Why so big(2)

2001-08-21 Thread Mike McGuire
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 03:51:16PM +0100, P Kirk wrote: > /dev/hda2 703M 574M 93M 86% / > du -m /usr/399 > du -m /usr/src/ 173 > du -m /usr/share148 > > du -m /home 120 > > I don't have anything other than samba and python installed. How can > /usr/share be so

Re: Why so big(2)

2001-08-21 Thread P Kirk
2001 3:51 PM Subject: Why so big(2) | My apologies for sending an attachemnt but it is only 4.1 k. This is my | installed list. | | /dev/hda2 703M 574M 93M 86% / | du -m /usr/399 | du -m /usr/src/ 173 | du -m /usr/share148 | | du -m /home 120 | | I don't

Re: Why so big(2)

2001-08-21 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > | nfs-common install > > | nfs-server install > > I assume that portmap is also installed if these are present. Remove > it, too. Especially on a firewall. portmap, unfortunately, isn't removable on a potato system. Trying to remov

Re: Why so big(2)

2001-08-21 Thread Mike Dresser
dman wrote: > On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 03:51:16PM +0100, P Kirk wrote: > > | I don't have anything other than samba and python installed. How can > | /usr/share be so big? > > This list is things that I don't think you need on this system. If > you intend to have a nice, useful desktop system the

Re: Why so big(2)

2001-08-21 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 11:12:55AM -0400, dman wrote: > | exim install It's good to have an MTA (not necessarily exim, although it's what I would use) on every box to handle outgoing mail (e.g., snort mailing you a report that something funny is going on). You should modify /etc/init.d/exim and /

Re: Why so big(2)

2001-08-21 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 03:51:16PM +0100, P Kirk wrote: > I don't have anything other than samba and python installed. How can > /usr/share be so big? All packages install at least a couple files under /usr/share/doc. -- With the arrest of Dimitry Sklyarov it has become apparent that it is not

Re: Why so big(2)

2001-08-21 Thread dman
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 03:51:16PM +0100, P Kirk wrote: | I don't have anything other than samba and python installed. How can | /usr/share be so big? Actually you have a lot of stuff installed that you don't need if the machine is only going to be a samba server and/or gateway/firewall. Also r

Why so big(2)

2001-08-21 Thread P Kirk
My apologies for sending an attachemnt but it is only 4.1 k. This is my installed list. /dev/hda2 703M 574M 93M 86% / du -m /usr/399 du -m /usr/src/ 173 du -m /usr/share148 du -m /home 120 I don't have anything other than samba and python installed. How can

Re: Why so big?

2001-08-20 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 20 2001, dman wrote: > I agree with this. I had a gateway system setup on which I manually > picked the packages and it only used ~120MB. I'm sure several of that > were used by /var/cache/apt/archives -- whenever you 'apt-get upgrade' > a copy of the .deb file is cached in that directory.

Re: Why so big?

2001-08-20 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 20 2001, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > If you want a "small setup" you shouldn't choose any task package at > all ... do the base install, install what you need (and possibly > uninstall what you don't; base still has a bit of "cruft"). Voila. > Yes, it does. Like PCMCIA packages th

Re: Why so big?

2001-08-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 11:48:38PM +0100, P Kirk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi all, > > When I installed slink, there used be a small system option that > required 34 MB. With potato, I choose simple setup, select SAMBA > server and then install vim from dselect. Its close on 200MB. You can v

Re: Why so big?

2001-08-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 11:48:38PM +0100, P Kirk wrote: > When I installed slink, there used be a small system option that required 34 > MB. With potato, I choose simple setup, select SAMBA server and then > install vim from dselect. Its close on 200MB. > > Is there a small Debian setup I missed

Re: Why so big?

2001-08-20 Thread dman
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 05:52:55PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: | On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 11:48:38PM +0100, P Kirk wrote: | > Hi all, | > | > When I installed slink, there used be a small system option that required 34 | > MB. With potato, I choose simple setup, select SAMBA server and then | >

Re: Why so big?

2001-08-20 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 11:48:38PM +0100, P Kirk wrote: > Hi all, > > When I installed slink, there used be a small system option that required 34 > MB. With potato, I choose simple setup, select SAMBA server and then > install vim from dselect. Its close on 200MB. > > Is there a small Debian s

Why so big?

2001-08-20 Thread P Kirk
Hi all, When I installed slink, there used be a small system option that required 34 MB. With potato, I choose simple setup, select SAMBA server and then install vim from dselect. Its close on 200MB. Is there a small Debian setup I missed? -- Patrick Kirk GSM: +44 7876 560 646 ICQ: 42219699