Re: Good fdisk Practices

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>> I'm a big proponent of swap *files*.  Once you allocate the whole
>> disk, there no room left over if you want to add another swap
>> partition, whereas you can add as many swap files as your heart
>> desires, whenever you need them.

> I'd always heard that swap files are slower than swap partitions.  Is  that
> a myth?

> Also, is there any good reason to have a separate /boot on a modern  system?
> I always thought /boot was just a kludge to get around old  BIOSes that
> couldn't load anything that wasn't on the first part of  the disk.  I tend
> to just combine /boot and / on my newer systems --  
> am I taking some kind of risk by doing so?

All my drives have 2 partitions: a /boot (with ext2 or ext3) of about 100MB
and the rest is an partition dedicated to LVM.  The reason for the separate
/boot is that GRUB does not know how to read files from LVM volumes, so
I need to load the kernel and initrd files from an ext[23].  Everything else
(/, /home, swap, etc..) is placed in LVM volumes.


        Stefan