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Re: Friday patch dump



On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 03:45:27PM -0700, John Reiser wrote:
> On 11/04/2011 02:52 PM, Brian C. Lane wrote:
> > For the EFI partition 200MB should be fine, all it has in it is the
> > kernel and a config file.
> 
> Is it really that simple?
> Most kernels (~ 4.2MB per Fedora config) are useless without their
> corresponding initrd or initramfs (~ 16MB).  If the EFI partition
> is a target for "yum update kernel", then the default policy of
> keeping the latest 3 versions increases the space required.
> Such a partition might be a handy depot for "pre-upgrade", too,
> and that is advertised as needing upto 500MB.

Sorry, I meant grub and it's config file. kernels and initramfs files
are in /boot, same as non-efi

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Brian C. Lane | Anaconda Team | IRC: bcl #anaconda | Port Orchard, WA (PST8PDT)

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