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[Bug 1716999] Re: installer creates rather small /boot partition

 

This bug was fixed in the package ubiquity - 2.21.63.7

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ubiquity (2.21.63.7) xenial; urgency=medium

  * Automatic update of included source packages: console-setup
    1.108ubuntu15.4, debian-installer-utils 1.113ubuntu1.16.04.1, hw-
    detect 1.117ubuntu2.3, partman-auto 134ubuntu1.3, partman-
    partitioning 110ubuntu4.2, preseed 1.71ubuntu1.2. (LP: #1716999)

 -- Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <cyphermox@xxxxxxxxxx>  Thu, 12 Jul 2018
17:34:32 -0400

** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu Xenial)
       Status: New => Fix Released

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Title:
  installer creates rather small /boot partition

Status in partman-auto package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in ubiquity package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in partman-auto source package in Xenial:
  Fix Released
Status in ubiquity source package in Xenial:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [Impact]
  All new installs of 16.04.

  [Test case]
  1) Install Ubuntu 16.04 on a system
  2) Validate that the size of the /boot partition is greater than or equal to 512MB; should be somewhere between 512MB and 1GB, close to 768MB.

  [Regression potential]
  This may adversely affect installs on tiny disks, by taking up more space for the /boot partition than was previously taken, at the cost of  / or /home. As such, failures to install due to insufficient space on a partition, or failure to partition a disk that was previously working should be investigated as possible regressions.
  This is a corner case in general since there is no requirement to allocate a separate partition for /boot in the default configuration, and if you are using a non-default configuration where /boot must be a separate partition, you probably also don't have a disk so small that an additional 256MB of disk usage is a problem.

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  The installer (in 16.04 and 17.10) creates a separate /boot partition,
  when required, of only 487M. This ends up being rather small when you
  using the following equation to estimate a minimal size allowing for
  reasonable room for further growth.

  (2*(3*kernel + 4*plymouth-carrying initrd + bootloader))

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