[SOLVED] not enough free space on /boot

[hadisch]

It is exactly like that. As far as I know, a separate boot partition is only necessary if you encrypt your entire system.
On my system I only have partitions for root, swap, home and timeshift. On my old laptop I had an encrypted system at times, in which case a separate boot partition was required.

[Swarfendor437]

That is all I ever do. But if your motherboard has EFI then you will also need an ESP partition.

[carmar]

Very useful stuff I was unaware of. Thanks, both. Now I know about timeshift and ESP partitions too.

[hadisch]

That is all I ever do. But if your motherboard has EFI then you will also need an ESP partition.

Interesting, I did not know that yet. I have never had to deal with EFI.

[Swarfendor437]

That is all I ever do. But if your motherboard has EFI then you will also need an ESP partition.

Interesting, I did not know that yet. I have never had to deal with EFI.

Here is a snapshot of my Zorin drive:

[carmar]

Sorry to necropost. I was installing Core on my niece's laptop - Satellite p55w-c5316: https://support.dynabook.com/support/st ... Link=false

I turned off UEFI. On install, after setting root and home, the setup insisted I set aside space for boot. Hadisch had suggested up to 2GB and I didn't know how to set the boot, esp flags so I arbitrarily picked 10GB (certainly not the mean between Swarf's 100GB and Hadisch's upper estimate) and then selected "Reserve for Boot" - or something like that selection in the drop down menu. What should I have done correctly?

[Aravisian]

Sorry to necropost. I was installing Core on my niece's laptop - Satellite p55w-c5316: https://support.dynabook.com/support/st ... Link=false

I turned off UEFI. On install, after setting root and home, the setup insisted I set aside space for boot. Hadisch had suggested up to 2GB and I didn't know how to set the boot, esp flags so I arbitrarily picked 10GB (certainly not the mean between Swarf's 100GB and Hadisch's upper estimate) and then selected "Reserve for Boot" - or something like that selection in the drop down menu. What should I have done correctly?

For me, 10gigs would be more than enough. I have noticed that others seem to install a lot more software and need more space (Or they install a bunch of stuff that they never remove). I am probably using about 2 gigs for root, now... But when I first started using Zorin, it was closer to 5gigs, with Home using another 5 or 6 gigs.
Fifty gigs should be plenty enough for any average user.

[Swarfendor437]

Sorry to necropost. I was installing Core on my niece's laptop - Satellite p55w-c5316: https://support.dynabook.com/support/st ... Link=false

I turned off UEFI. On install, after setting root and home, the setup insisted I set aside space for boot. Hadisch had suggested up to 2GB and I didn't know how to set the boot, esp flags so I arbitrarily picked 10GB (certainly not the mean between Swarf's 100GB and Hadisch's upper estimate) and then selected "Reserve for Boot" - or something like that selection in the drop down menu. What should I have done correctly?

That was an install error on my part - must have been nodding off when I wanted it to be 100 Mb!

[carmar]

Thanks to you both.
Actually, I set her root to 100GB - she's not gonna install anything without me knowing (or if she does there is still an obscene amount of space) but she has a 1TB whopper of a drive so I figured why not. After 24GB swap she had ~800GB still left for home. Even then install still asked me for boot space and that is where I picked 10GB just for boot.

Could you still explain to me how to set "boot, esp" flags or should I not worry about that?

[Swarfendor437]

Hi, It should show up when you install as one of the options in respect of 'esp' should show up if you have EFI enabled in the BIOS. Whilst i am now steering well clear of Makulu - one of it's install features was a reminder if you hadn't created an EFI partition, the same with FerenOS.