+1 Valeri. I agree that things have changed a lot! However, Devin, the answer to your question is that the /boot partition is a necessity in a LVM environment, which everything else is by default. The /boot partition cannot be a logical volume; it must be a raw disk partition with an EXT[34] file system. On 02/13/2016 03:19 PM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > On Sat, February 13, 2016 5:57 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? >> > It is interesting to observe how perceptions are changing over time. > Decade or two ago we were partitioning small then drives (thus loosing > some of the space) just to separate regular users from those places vital > for secure and reliable running of the system. Security. There days I bet > there will be multiple experts who will bag me to death if I will try to > offer any pro partitioning argument. This is just a very interesting (for > me) observation. > > Valeri > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Valeri Galtsev > Sr System Administrator > Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics > Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics > University of Chicago > Phone: 773-702-4247 > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- > > > ********************************************************* > David P. Both, RHCE > Millennium Technology Consulting LLC > Raleigh, NC, USA > 919-389-8678 > > dboth at millennium-technology.com > > www.millennium-technology.com > www.databook.bz - Home of the DataBook for Linux > DataBook is a Registered Trademark of David Both > ********************************************************* > This communication may be unlawfully collected and stored by the National > Security Agency (NSA) in secret. The parties to this email do not consent to the > retrieving or storing of this communication and any related metadata, as well as > printing, copying, re-transmitting, disseminating, or otherwise using it. If you > believe you have received this communication in error, please delete it > immediately. >