[Gllug] To partition or not to partition

[Nix]

On 11 Oct 2010, Chris Bell verbalised:

> On Mon 11 Oct, Alain Williams wrote:
>> 
>
>> I do so because:
>> * robustness -- keep / on a quiet partition and it should survive nasty crashes
>> * /boot - similar to /, but also at the start of a disk - prob no longer needed
>>   Also: I have every partition in LVM, something that you can't do with /boot
>>   Some also think it unwise to have / in LVM
>
>    A /boot using grub2 needs to be within / so that it has full access to
> the kernel.

What? grub2 requires /boot to be on the root filesystem?!

(Well, there goes any chance of my using it.)
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