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echo: rberrypi
to: TAUNO VOIPIO
from: TAUNO VOIPIO
date: 2020-06-06 15:16:00
subject: Re: SIze of Pi4 /boot

On 3.6.20 14:01, Tauno Voipio wrote:
> The Raspbian updates complain that my /boot partition
> is too small, Pi4 support dropped.
>
> How large must /boot be for Pi4?
>


Thanks to all for the responses.

I solved the complaint by moving the root partition
upward by 86 megabytes, enough to get space for a
128 Mib /boot.

The size of Pi4 /boot is around 53 megabytes, so
64 megabytes should already do it.

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Another oddity: The /boot partition is in FAT32,
but the Windowses do not like FAT32 smaller than
500 Mib, so the partition has to be deleted and
re-created in the desired size, of course saving
and restoring the contents separately.

Maybe Pi is happy to boot from a FAT16, as well.
I have not tried it yet.

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-TV

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