[Gllug] To partition or not to partition

['lesleyb']

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:40:10AM +0100, Alain Williams wrote:
> 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
> 
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6             942M  159M  736M  18% /
tmpfs                 1.6G     0  1.6G   0% /lib/init/rw
udev                   10M  868K  9.2M   9% /dev
tmpfs                 1.6G     0  1.6G   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda5             464M   27M  414M   6% /boot
/dev/sda13             28G   18G  8.9G  67% /home
/dev/sda12            4.6G  718M  3.7G  17% /opt
/dev/sda11            4.6G  138M  4.3G   4% /srv
/dev/sda9             4.6G  138M  4.3G   4% /tmp
/dev/sda7             4.6G  3.4G  981M  78% /usr
/dev/sda8             4.6G  1.1G  3.3G  25% /usr/local
/dev/sda10            4.6G  424M  4.0G  10% /var

and I use grub v0.97. ... no problems here 

But I don't use LVM.... 

Regards

L.
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