How to get the most out of HD space.

[Karl Larsen]

Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 10:16:25AM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
>   
>>> I've always wondered about having separate / and /boot.
>>> After all one cannot function without the other.
>>>       
>> /boot cannot exist on an LVM.
>>     
>
> Although the original reason was to insure it was in the area of the disk
> old BIOSes were restricted to booting from, for LILO's benefit. And I'm sure
> once the LVM thing is solved, there will be some new problem it solves. :)
>
>   
    The Grub works fine from another partition but it takes a very 
careful setup in grub.conf to make it work. I have never liked LVM 
because it takes a whole lot of space and I am not sure why.



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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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