On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 09:13:10AM -0700, Phil Meyer wrote:
On 11/17/2010 04:19 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 16:13:15 -0700
> Phil Meyer wrote:
>
>> We have noticed a couple times that if /boot is very full BEFORE
>> preupgrade downloads anything, it will prompt to do a network based
>> preupgrade which works well.
> Just for curiosity, why have a separate /boot partition at all?
> I always just make a single / partition, install everything on it
> and never run out of space in /boot or /home because it is all the
> same chunk of space.
One reason is that not all file system types are supported by grub.
For instance, until very recently it was nearly impossible to boot from
a logical volume. So if you wanted to do software based raid, your only
choice was a separate /boot partition.
It was the disparity with grub that caused the Red Hat 'convention', or
tradition, to always create a separate /boot.
Even now, I don't think that grub can boot from a btrfs partition, and
btrfs could possibly become the default in a future release.
That's certainly one valid reason. But there has been a long-standing
historical practice of making several filesystems to ensure that, e.g.
corruption occurring on one partition won't affect the whole filesystem.
Makes recovery easier if you don't have to re-do the entire system.
--
---- Fred Smith -- fredex(a)fcshome.stoneham.ma.us -----------------------------
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this:
While we were still sinners,
Christ died for us.
------------------------------- Romans 5:8 (niv) ------------------------------