Re: Why should "/boot" be on a separate partition?
On (08/04/06 19:38), Masatran (Deepak), R. wrote:
> Why should "/boot" be on a separate partition (rather than on the "/"
> partition)?
>
> I have installed Debian 3.1 with a separate "/boot" partition. I intend
> installing Ubuntu 5.10 . Should I share the "/boot" partition between Debian
> and Ubuntu?
There are probably a number of reasons why but I use ext2 on /boot and
ext3 on other partitions.
It doesn't sount like a good idea to share your /boot partition between
two installations.
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