Wise disk parting.

[John Summerfield]

Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 01:16:51 +0700,
>   Strong <strong_yethumble at pochta.ru> wrote:
>> On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 11:00:59 -0500 "Lamar Owen" <lowen at pari.edu> wrote:
>>> I have typically partitioned with four partitions:
>>> 200MB or so /boot
>>> swap equal to RAM size on late 2.6 kernels
>>> 8-10GB /
>>> remainder /home
>> Could You explain/argument the partitioning, please?
>> 1. Why separate /boot?
> 
> There are restrictions on /boot since it needs to be read before the system
> is up and running (i.e. by grub). Currently it can't be encrypted and is
> limited to using only raid 1 for software raid (because the layout for
> a single raid 1 element can be used ignoring raid when just reading).
> 
Grub doesn't do LVM either, whereas RH/Fedora defaults to using LVM.

Also, some systems' BIOS can't read all the disk. I thought the problem 
was long solved, then got bitten and I've not finished being twice shy yet.

Probably it really is long solved, now.



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