Re: Why should "/boot" be on a separate partition?

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Subject: Re: Why should "/boot" be on a separate partition?
From: David Koski <david@kosmosisland.com>
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 13:08:52 -0700
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In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20060408140835.GA18580@research.iiit.ac.in>
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On Saturday 08 April 2006 07:08, Masatran (Deepak), R. wrote:
> Why should "/boot" be on a separate partition (rather than on the "/"
> partition)?

To add to reasons already given, if you want to run software
RAID5 (or RAID0 or ...)  on root you have to have a separate boot
partition because you cannot boot software RAID5.

David

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