On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:32:25 -0500 Allan Wind <allan_wind@lifeintegrity.com> wrote: > On 2008-01-18T14:05:25-0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > > (8) Is there any advantage to using ext2 for /boot rather than > > > > ext3? > > > > no to either > > /boot should not be a single partition by itself.. > > it is part of /bin, /lib, /sbin /etc ... which is the rootfs > > > > even if /boot is fine, if your "rootfs" is corrupt, you > > can't boot so there is no point to separating /boot ... we'll leave > > network boot, boooting off cd, and booting off usb stick for > > another ballgame > > Your analysis is correct. The only reason for having /boot on a > separate partition is as a work-around for the (historical) 1024 > cylinders / 504 MB limits of IDE. Actually it is still useful for cases where the root file system is not available until the initrd does it's magic, such as in the case of an encryped LVM volume with everything except /boot. Regards, Daniel -- And that's my crabbing done for the day. Got it out of the way early, now I have the rest of the afternoon to sniff fragrant tea-roses or strangle cute bunnies or something. -- Michael Devore GnuPG Key Fingerprint 86 F5 81 A5 D4 2E 1F 1C http://gnupg.org No more sea shells: Daniel's Weblog http://cshore.wordpress.com
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