On Sat, 2004-12-06 at 14:33 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > First off it won't allow the /boot named partition to not be a > directory of /, and there isn't any good reason I can see for that > restriction. If there is, please explain it to me. AFAIK, it could > actually be on a different physical drive as still be 100% > functional. That's not my experience, Gene. On the machine I set up on Thursday, the /boot partition is a RAID-1 pair of mirrored partitions, all on its own. / is a separate, non-mirrored, partition on one of the disks. Maybe Disk Druid used to insist on /boot being part of /, but it doesn't any more. The only annoyance that DD still has for me is the arbitrary rearrangement of partitions while I'm creating them. I know it's mostly just an aesthetic thing, but I want mirrored partitions (for example) to be on the same cylinders on both disks in the mirror. DD's constant rearrangement makes that frustrating sometimes. -- Ben Steeves _ bcs@xxxxxxxxxx The ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) ben.steeves@xxxxxx against HTML e-mail X GPG ID: 0xB3EBF1D9 http://www.metacon.ca/ascii / \ Yahoo Messenger: ben_steeves
