On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 12:49:48PM -0500, Mark Mielke wrote: > So that if you corrupt /, you minimize the chance of ruining your boot > images (GRUB/LILO + Linux) making it difficult to recover. Actually, In my experience, if / is corrupt, you're going to have a really hard time booting regardless of the state of the kernel images. A rescue CD is probably in the cards no matter what. So I don't see this as a very strong argument. > If you use a file system (for /) that supports 'tail-packing', or a > file system not supported by GRUB, or an unsupported file system that > doesn't store the boot image together as a single series of blocks > with LILO, you may be _forced_ to make /boot a separate ext2/3 > partition. You may not be able to boot otherwise. Sure, reasonable for special cases. [snip] > If you do it all on one partition, you have very few choices. At the expense of more administrative overhead and potentially wasted disk space. It's an endless debate. :) -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
