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I reinstalled new clean version of Ubuntu 17.04 onto my computer. This is single OS on this computer so I use "Erase disc and install Ubuntu" without manual creation of partitions...

Everything it seems fine but partitions by default seem to small? Just 500MB!

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Please see screenshot how my hard looks now! How does it possible by default? Sometimes it freezing... :-(

Please help,

Sinisa

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    500 MB for the EFI partition is just fine, this one only contains few and small files. The /boot partition could be bigger, but here 500 MB should also normally be enough unless you pile up old kernel images.
    – Byte Commander ♦
    Aug 16, 2017 at 14:19
  • Ok. Thanks, it is good to know this... This is my second installation of Ubuntu... At first I was created two bigger partititons manuallly according with some tutorial... But now I just overwrite through installation wizard.
    – Siniša Botaš
    Aug 16, 2017 at 19:10
  • Oh, and no, this can not be a reason for any freezing. If anything, you would get disk-full-errors when trying to install kernel updates. Other than that there should not be any possible trouble a full or too small /boot partition could cause.
    – Byte Commander ♦
    Aug 16, 2017 at 19:18
  • Full disks don’t normally cause system crashes (application crashes are a different thing).
    – David Foerster
    Aug 17, 2017 at 15:13

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These small partitions are boot partitions. As you can see they only use 4,4 Mebibyte or rather 152,2 MiB, around 500 MiB of size is totally fine for them.

So: No, the automatically created partitions are perfectly good the way they are.

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  • Ok! Thank you for answer... It seemed weird to me that installation wizard colud produce such big mistake by defalut, or which can be a reason why my new Ubuntu freezies time to time so soon after installation... I thought maybe small partitions could be a reason. My Ubuntu 16.04 never freezed up before... Can be some bug in new 17.04 version?
    – Siniša Botaš
    Aug 16, 2017 at 19:16
  • @SinišaBotaš Please search for your symptoms in other questions and – if necessary – pose a new one for that, giving us exact information, error outputs etc. It' simpossible to say this way.
    – dessert
    Aug 16, 2017 at 19:24

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