Re: partition this thing!
*- On 27 Sep, Chris Ruvolo wrote about "Re: partition this thing!"
> At 11:02 PM 9/26/99 +0300, you wrote:
>>This is my first try at more than swap and /. tiny /boot, giant
>>/home, right? Anyone feel like helping?
>
> I don't think a separate partition for /boot would be a good idea. /boot
> is the default location for the kernel. Having the kernel and init
> (usually /sbin) on different partitions is probably bad. I don't see how
> that would work unless you mounted them both on the first pass (could take
> some mucking around in your startup scripts, and generally not a good idea).
>
Sometimes you have to put /boot on a separate partition because of the
1024 cylinder limit of lilo. I had to do this for my 17.2G drive(hdb)
that most of my Linux was on. I made a small 15M partition on my
smaller drive(hda) for /boot and it works like a champ.
See the Partition mini-HOWTO as well as the Large-Disk mini-HOWTO.
--
Brian
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