Getting rid of /boot

Timothy Murphy gayleard at eircom.net
Sat Dec 5 13:43:52 UTC 2009


Matthew Saltzman wrote:

>> Actually, the complexity is that Fedora for some insane reason still
>> defaults to using LVM for everything *other* than /boot.  This brings
>> no benefit to most users.
>> 
> 
> Well, it means I can have separate filesystems for things that I don't
> want overwritten if I reinstall (/home, /usr/local, /opt, /var/www,
> etc.)

That's only 4, or 7 with / , /boot and swap.
How do you get up to 15?

In any case, the default partitioning doesn't give you 15 partitions,
so this seems an odd reason for recommending it.

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