[Gllug] To partition or not to partition

[Chris Bell]

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.


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