Getting rid of /boot

[Bill Davidsen]

Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 16:45 -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: 
>> On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I had understood the complexity to be the separate /boot not the use of lvm...
>> 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.) and I can dynamically resize them if they get unbalanced.  That's
> pretty useful.
> 
> Someone else mentioned the limited number of physical and logical
> partitions.  If you want separate partitions for those systems and for,
> say, separate system and user data on a dual-boot machine with Windows,
> and multiboot, and a diagnostics partition, those partitions can get
> used up pretty quickly.
> 
Have a big /boot and you can have many kernels available. During the 2.5 
development cycles, between 2.4, 2.5, -ac, -mm, -aa, etc kernels I hit the limit 
of LILO to support more than 19 (from memory) kernels.

Sane people don't have these problems.

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