200MB default boot partition size too small

[qubesuser]

Qubes OS version:

R4.0-rc2

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Install Qubes using default settings (tested with EFI), or look at the default partition layout in custom partitioning

Expected behavior:

Boot partition is at least 500MB, preferably 1GB large.

Actual behavior:

Boot partition is 200MB

General notes:

200MB is enough for the current use case, but potentially impedes future features as well as tinkering by power users. Since it's very difficult to change, a larger size seems warranted. Other distributions also seem to have adopted or be moving towards 500MB+ sizes.

[marmarek]

On default non-EFI installation, /boot is about 1GB. On EFI, /boot/efi should be 500MB, and no separate /boot should be created. Apparently the latter doesn't work. 200MB is default value in Fedora, so that function either is buggy, or not called at all in the current anaconda.

[qubesuser]

The 200MB is what the automatic partition creation button after choosing custom partitioning offered on my system.

Maybe that uses a different codepath? (it also defaults to LVM instead of LVM Thin Provisioning, so it seems it could be)

Also not quite sure about the logic in having different sizes between /boot and /boot/efi since the biggest space usage is Xen and the Linux kernels and initramfses, which are of course present in both cases.

[marmarek]

Test for this (failing right now): https://openqa.qubes-os.org/tests/646#step/mount_and_boot_options/21

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