/boot as an ext3 partition?

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Di, den 21.09.2004 schrieb Robert P. J. Day um 17:46:

>    historically, i've always created a separate /boot partition as a 
> primary partition, even when i've formatted the rest of my hda drive 
> as an extended partition.

Me too :)

>    given that i want to use LVM on this next install (FC3t2, actually, 
> although this is clearly not a test-related question), is this still 
> the standard approach?  what are the options for the /boot partition 
> that GRUB will understand?  logical partition?  logical volume within 
> LVM?

See:

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/sysadmin-guide/ch-lvm-intro.html
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/sysadmin-guide/ch-lvm.html

Both pages have specific comments on the /boot partition topic.

> rday

Alexander


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