[Gllug] To partition or not to partition

[Alain Williams]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 10:26:52AM +0000, Chris Bell wrote:
> 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.

????

This doesn't suggest so:

	http://grub.enbug.org/Manual#head

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