On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 15:39 -0500, Yaakov Nemoy wrote:
/boot is a 100-200 MB partition on many machines. Unless Grub can
safely handled an encrypted partition on top of a Logical Volume
running on an encrypted Volume Group running on an encrypted Physical
Volume on an encrypted hard drive, with levels of Software RAID in
between each step, there's just no sense supporting /boot on anything
other than a 100-200 MB ext2 or ext3 volume.
Why do we even waste 128mb on an ext3 journal for /boot? It changes
rarely and such a small filesystem with only a handful of files takes 0
time to fsck. On all my machines /boot is a 256mb (plenty of room for
the upcoming rescue image in /boot...) ext2 partition set to fsck on
every boot. Every time I upgrade, anaconda nags me to "upgrade" /boot to
ext3...