Re: mount Partition
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On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, John Pearson wrote:
> If you want to avoid B?IOS problems by putting all of the files needed
> to boot in the first 1024 cylinders, make /dev/hdc1 smaller (10Mb
> should be heaps) and mount /dev/hdc3 as /, and /dev/hdc1 as /boot.
Instead of making a separate /boot, i prefer to keep only the essentials
in /. An 80MB partition has been more than enough for that in my
experience. YMMV, especially if you have insanely huge files in /etc or
you install many programs into /bin that should go into /usr/bin...
> All of the files needed by LILO to boot the kernel live in /boot, and
> 10Mb is more than adequate - I can easily store 5 kernels in a 5Mb
> /boot partition.
All the files needed to boot the kernel are in /boot by default on a
Debian system (some other distros/Unicies put the kernel image in /
instead of /boot). However, all the files needed by the kernel to boot the
system aren't in /boot. If you keep /bin, /boot, /dev, /etc, /lib, and
/sbin on the / partition; and /usr, /home, /var, /tmp on other partitions;
then everything needed to boot the system is there in the one partition,
and extra stuff isn't.
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