@phd The /boot/efi partition size of 512MiB is far larger than most people need, but it does cover almost all potential use cases included dual boot. If that partition gets corrupted or filled, it could prevent boot of any OS on that disk. For this reason, I believe the team went with the sensible choice and kept that size to prevent this catastrophic, and for many people, unrecoverable error.
There are certainly other reasons why /boot/efi is separate. As you mentioned, symlinks are lost, and I speculate that might necessitate full copies of initrd.img, for example, which would completely negate any space savings from combining the two. And of course, if you do that and load up too many kernels, the /boot/efi partition can get corrupted, which is even worse than an overfull boot partition. It seems to your suggestion of providing the user the opportunity to specify the /boot partition size on install is an excellent choice, and IMO is a great resolution to the issue. Customers who run development, AI, and content-creation workstations definitely need a larger boot allocation, whereas Raspberry Pi hobbyists are probably fine with the default, although I wonder how many of the latter actually need or use LVM or LVM+LUKS (FDE). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1960089 Title: Request 2.0 GiB Boot Partition for 22.04LTS FDE To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/partman-auto/+bug/1960089/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
