[clug] Laptop Problem

[Rodney Peters]

My recent experience helping recover from a Kubuntu stuff-up is that it 
creates h-u-g-e initrd ~ 80 MB.  A separate /boot looks a bad idea for 
Kubuntu.  If it runs out of space to compile a new initrd then it can 
hang and fail to delete old kernels, at which point you are in Catch 22 
mode.  It is feasible to move the contents of separate /boot partition 
to a /boot directory, re-jig /etc/fstab and re-work the boot loader.

I doubt that there is much merit in a separate /boot for laptops.  GRUB 
& rEFInd boot loaders have long been able to read btrfs.

Rod

On 4/3/21 11:30 pm, Peter Ellis via linux wrote:
> Put that in the "back of mind".
>
> P
>
> On Thu, 4 Mar 2021, 9:56 pm Brett Worth via linux, <linux at lists.samba.org>
> wrote:
>
>> On 4/3/21 9:43 pm, Andreas Bauer wrote:
>>> Out of curiosity: what FS did you put on /boot? Also btrfs?
>> I have just noticed that the partition I had been using for /boot is now
>> disused.  That
>> must have happened during an ubuntu upgrade.  It also explains why the
>> fsck would not
>> work.  I don't really understand what happened but it seems the
>> boot-repair actually
>> repaired the btrfs / partition and MBR.
>>
>> I must confess I've not been paying a lot of attention to this system
>> because it normally
>> "just works".
>>
>> Brett
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