Bruno Wolff III wrote:
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 01:16:51 +0700,
Strong <strong_yethumble@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 11:00:59 -0500 "Lamar Owen" <lowen@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have typically partitioned with four partitions:
200MB or so /boot
swap equal to RAM size on late 2.6 kernels
8-10GB /
remainder /home
Could You explain/argument the partitioning, please?
1. Why separate /boot?
There are restrictions on /boot since it needs to be read before the system
is up and running (i.e. by grub). Currently it can't be encrypted and is
limited to using only raid 1 for software raid (because the layout for
a single raid 1 element can be used ignoring raid when just reading).
Grub doesn't do LVM either, whereas RH/Fedora defaults to using LVM.
Also, some systems' BIOS can't read all the disk. I thought the problem
was long solved, then got bitten and I've not finished being twice shy yet.
Probably it really is long solved, now.
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Cheers
John
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