Re: Good fdisk Practices

[David Brodbeck <brodbd@u.washington.edu>]

On Aug 25, 2007, at 5:23 PM, s. keeling wrote:

> 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.

I'm thinking no.  To alter any of the kernel files you'd need root  
privileges, and if you have that, you can do 'mount /boot'.