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Date:      Wed, 01 Feb 2017 09:57:02 +0000
From:      Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57@fastmail.fm>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Boot partition size
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On Wed, Feb 1, 2017, at 08:38 AM, krad wrote:
> Are we really that worried about 90-99 MB when we are talking about many TB
> drives? Even the entry-mid range SSD are in the region of 256-512 GB these
> days?

Indeed. I've been using 100MB boot partitions for many years now, because I see no point in allocating anything less. I'm not even the type to always have the latest hardware, the last disks I bought were 720GB. 

100MB is only 10% of 1GB. The first hard disk I ever bought for myself, in the 1990s, affordable when I had almost no spending money, was 4GB.

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