Re: Good fdisk Practices

["s. keeling" <keeling@nucleus.com>]

Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>:
> 
>  On 08/24/07 11:16, David Brodbeck wrote:
> > 
> > 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
> 
>  I doubt it.  I still do it, though, from tradition I guess.

There may be good reason for it still in terms of security.  /boot
doesn't need to be mounted on a running system.  I'm not sure if that
adds a lot of security though.


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