> Then the question will be: how long will 1GB be enough space?

Don't be so stingy!  :)  Hard disk space still expensive?

Take a lesson from Windows (and me).  When a recent Win 10 update couldn't be applied because the standard 500 MB WinRE (Recovery Environment) was too small, and the forum talk was "Is 1 GB enough?", I went straight for adding 4 GB, totalling 4.5 GB.

Hartmut


On Thu 02 May 2024 at 23:56:13 -05:00, Trevor Cordes <trevor@tecnopolis.ca> wrote:
Joy of joys...

===
Error: Transaction test error:
  installing package kernel-core-6.8.8-100.fc38.x86_64 needs 13MB more
space on the /boot filesystem installing package
grub2-efi-x64-1:2.06-118.fc38.x86_64 needs 20MB more space on the /boot
filesystem
===

Today Fedora decided that 400MB of /boot space wasn't enough to hold
3 kernel versions, a rescue, and grub.  And that's not the easiest fix
in the world...

My longest-continuously-upgraded systems were expanded a
decade+ ago from whatever (100? 200? MB) to 400MB, which Fedora
recommended at the time.  Luckily some later ones I set to 500MB which
should be ok for a few more years.  The new Fedora standard seems to be
1GB.

Easiest fix for now is to edit dnf.conf to change installonly_limit to
2 rather than 3.  However, that isn't ideal as there have been times I
had to go back to that 3rd-oldest kernel.  I guess another option is to
disable the rescue kernel, which is always so old I don't even know if
it will even work.  In fact, I just talked myself into the latter
option until the next disk upgrade when I can do some gparted partying.

Then the question will be: how long will 1GB be enough space?
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