Getting rid of /boot

Matthew Saltzman mjs at clemson.edu
Sat Dec 5 15:30:01 UTC 2009


On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 20:17 -0500, Ryan Lynch wrote: 
> On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 20:13, Matthew Saltzman <mjs at clemson.edu> wrote:
> > 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.) and I can dynamically resize them if they get unbalanced.  That's
> > pretty useful.
> 
> Out of curiousity, what filesystem do you use to get dynamic shrinking?

Sorry if I wasn't clear--by "dynamic" I didn't mean "online", though
AFAICT from reading docs, ext filesystems can be resized online.

But I can shrink an ext filesystem and the LV that contains it, then
expand a different LV and the fielsystem on it, without having to move
the partitions so that the space is contiguous.  Way more convenient
than the alternative.

> 
> -Ryan
> 
> 


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