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Bug#1143639: debian-installer: Consider bumping default size for /boot partition to 1GB

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Source: debian-installer
Version: 20250803+deb13u6
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

I'm using multiple Debian machines over the years and I am mainly
installing those Debian systems via debian-.*-amd64-netinst.iso image
with plain text Debian Installer and I'm using guided partitioning.

I used Bookworm, Trixie and I am testing Forky. Over the years apt
update, full-upgrade or unattended-upgrades lead to disk out of
space on /boot even though old kernels are removed after a while,
but current space seems just too tight for mutli years distribution
upgrades (and not clear reinstall). For me distribuation upgrades are
just easier (Bookworm > Trixie > Forky). I can fix those problems
with /boot running out of disk space, but I would prefer to avoid
them and have just a little more space.

# df -hl /boot/ /boot/efi/
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/nvme0n1p2  456M  270M  162M  63% /boot
/dev/nvme0n1p1  511M   26M  486M   6% /boot/efi

Current size seems approx 500MB, but I would like to ask for bump
to 1GB in the upcoming Debian Forky.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.6
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.12.96+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

-- 
Regards,
 Mikolaj

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Bug#1143639: debian-installer: Consider bumping default size for /boot partition to 1GB Mikolaj Kucharski <mikolaj@kucharski.name> - 2026-08-05 12:40 +0200
  Bug#1143639: debian-installer: Consider bumping default size for /boot partition to 1GB Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2026-08-05 13:20 +0200
  Bug#1143639: debian-installer: Consider bumping default size for /boot partition to 1GB Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> - 2026-08-05 13:30 +0200
  Bug#1143639: debian-installer: Consider bumping default size for /boot partition to 1GB Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> - 2026-08-05 15:50 +0200

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