On 2019-05-08 15:05, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On Wed, 8 May 2019 at 13:48, Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu> > wrote: > >> >> >> On 2019-05-08 12:28, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: >>> On Wed, 8 May 2019 at 13:24, mark <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: >> >>>> >>> Yep. Minimum for that is going to be about the same as your RESCUE. The >>> other would just be to confirm that the sda has space and nothing still >> on >>> it which it was trying to work around. >>> >> >> In CentOS releases 5 --> 6 --> 7 >> >> the demand for /boot size doubles if not triples with each release... >> Otherwise one day you may fill it up before number of kernels will be >> such that kernel update will remove oldest kernel. And _we_ called >> Windows 2000 "bloated pig" when it was released... Sigh. >> >> > Software seems to grow to the maximum space it can occupy. Of course, this is true. I do remember big upgrade: 40 MB hard drive replacing 20 MB one. Still, during the same decade an a half covering CentOS releases I mentioned, on my FreeBSD boxes /boot grew up less than twice, whereas on my CentOS boxes it grew up at least 5 times. I safely run CentOS 5 through its whole lifespan with /boot as small as 200MB. On CentOS 7 I make /boot 3 GB (maybe slight overkill, but boxes with 1 GB went into /boot size issue after several kernel updates). But what one can do: Linux kernel has a lot of stuff that, hmm..., one can probably live without, and what comes with Linux distributions covers widest variety of hardware it will run on ;-) Valeri PS Yes, I run and programmed for machines with 4 - 16 Kb of RAM, and now administer machine with almost 1 TB of RAM. Now you can pretty much pinpoint my age ;-) > I think in 1989 > we were complaining about BSD not being able to fit on our VAX 750's boot > drive anymore and we needed to put in a 40MB drive system instead. I expect > by the 2040's we will be looking at petabyte drives and wondering how we > can fit anything on it. > > > > >> Valeri >> >>> >>> >>>> mark >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> CentOS mailing list >>>> CentOS at centos.org >>>> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >>>> >>> >>> >> >> -- >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> Valeri Galtsev >> Sr System Administrator >> Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics >> Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics >> University of Chicago >> Phone: 773-702-4247 >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> > > -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++