On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Chris G wrote: > On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 01:16:51AM +0700, Strong 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? > > Fedora install does that all by itself given a blank unpartitioned > disk. I think it's because it's easier for grub to have its own > partition that's not an LVM partition. i think we had this conversation before -- didn't we agree that grub can't access logical volumes? so that /boot *can't* be in a logical volume? i thought that's how that previous thread played out. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ========================================================================
