13 Feb
2016
13 Feb
'16
2:55 p.m.
On 02/13/2016 05:57 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Devin Reade wrote:
I have a CentOS 6 machine that was initially installed as CentOS 6.4 in May of 2013. It's /boot filesystem is 200M which, IIRC, was the default /boot size at the time.
As a matter of interest, is there any advantage today in having a /boot partition? I thought it went back to the days when the boot-loader had to be near the beginning of the disk?
With GRUB legacy, there are some limitations on /boot. It cannot be encrypted, cannot reside on some types of software RAID, cannot be in an LVM logical volume, and must be in an ext2/3/4 filesystem. If your root filesystem violates any of that, then you need a separate /boot partition. GRUB 2 removes most of those restrictions.
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