If you have a separate boot partition, I'd not only suggest making it a primary partition for the same reason, but also mounting it read-only for oops-protection.
Brian Brunner brian.t.brunner@gai-tronics.com (610)796-5838
thebs413@earthlink.net 12/02/05 12:17PM >>>
Robert roberth@abbacomm.net wrote:
greetings bryan, did you say that in your experience the /var partition should _not_ be on the extended partition table
for
"recovery" purposes?
Nope, not at all.
I put /var in Extended, LVM and, if you can believe it, even LDM (yes, Windows "dynamic disk" disk label format ;-).
I only avoid putting root (/) in anything but a primary partition for recoverability. Even if I use a separate /boot (I rarely do -- I keep my root do only a few GBs max), I still like it outside of any compound disk label.
"Brian T. Brunner" brian.t.brunner@gai-tronics.com wrote:
If you have a separate boot partition, I'd not only suggest making it a primary partition for the same reason, but also mounting it read-only for oops-protection.
That's probably the greatest advantage of a separate /boot partition. If I want to absolutely guarantee a bootable kernel, a separate /boot unmounted or mounted read-only is highly recommended.
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