disk partition probs - FC2 install

[Ben Steeves]

On Sat, 2004-12-06 at 14:33 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:

> First off it won't allow the /boot named partition to not be a 
> directory of /, and there isn't any good reason I can see for that 
> restriction.  If there is, please explain it to me.  AFAIK, it could 
> actually be on a different physical drive as still be 100% 
> functional.

That's not my experience, Gene.  On the machine I set up on Thursday,
the /boot partition is a RAID-1 pair of mirrored partitions, all on its
own.  / is a separate, non-mirrored, partition on one of the disks.  

Maybe Disk Druid used to insist on /boot being part of /, but it doesn't
any more.

The only annoyance that DD still has for me is the arbitrary
rearrangement of partitions while I'm creating them.  I know it's mostly
just an aesthetic thing, but I want mirrored partitions (for example) to
be on the same cylinders on both disks in the mirror.  DD's constant
rearrangement makes that frustrating sometimes.

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