Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 at 4:32pm, Ross S. W. Walker wrote
>
>> I think you might be missing a little something in there, like /boot?
>
> /boot is not required to be its own partition. In the days of yore,
> when BIOSes couldn't boot from partitions the crossed the 1024 cylinder
> barrier, it made sense to have a small /boot as your first partition.
> These days? Not so much.
There are still good reasons to keep it separate. For example you may
want / on something grub doesn't understand like LVM or raid (raid1 can
pretend it isn't, but other levels won't work. Or you may want to move
your / to a drive other than the one that boots.
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Les Mikesell
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