David Brodbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There may be good reason for it still in terms of security. /boot
doesn't need to be mounted on a running system. I'm not sure if that
adds a lot of security though.
I'm thinking no. To alter any of the kernel files you'd need root
privileges, and
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm a big proponent of swap *files*. Once you allocate the whole
disk, there no room left over if you want to add another swap
partition, whereas you can add as many swap files as your heart
desires, whenever you need them.
After reading this thread I
On Aug 25, 2007, at 8:52 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On the other hand, having /boot separate could be more robust in the
event of an unclean shutdown. The system won't boot at all if the
kernel file gets corrupted, so having /boot separate, and perhaps
mounted ro helps protect it.
I
* Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-08-24 16:40:08 -0500]:
Or go out on Ebay and buy some replacement RAM chips. If the chips
on your Hell aren't soldered onto the mobo.
Yep, good point.
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Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 08/24/07 11:16, David Brodbeck wrote:
Also, is there any good reason to have a separate /boot on a modern
system? I always thought /boot was just a kludge to get around old
BIOSes that couldn't load anything that wasn't on the first part of the
I
On Aug 25, 2007, at 5:23 PM, s. keeling wrote:
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 08/24/07 11:16, David Brodbeck wrote:
Also, is there any good reason to have a separate /boot on a modern
system? I always thought /boot was just a kludge to get around old
BIOSes that couldn't load anything
David Brodbeck writes:
I'm thinking no. To alter any of the kernel files you'd need root
privileges, and if you have that, you can do 'mount /boot'.
True for an intelligent cracker, but a trojan trying to patch the kernel
isn't going to know to mount anything.
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On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 11:59:02AM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote:
On Aug 25, 2007, at 5:23 PM, s. keeling wrote:
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 08/24/07 11:16, David Brodbeck wrote:
Also, is there any good reason to have a separate /boot on a modern
system? I always thought /boot was
It appears after reading the fdisk manual, that it is
best to put swap on whats left of the disk after calculating
one's other partition needs. The boot image should end up in the
lowest sector numbers. Do I understand this right?
I am about to reformat a 20-gig hard disk on a
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 08:10:41AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote:
It appears after reading the fdisk manual, that it is
best to put swap on whats left of the disk after calculating
one's other partition needs. The boot image should end up in the
lowest sector numbers. Do I understand
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On 08/24/07 08:10, Martin McCormick wrote:
It appears after reading the fdisk manual, that it is
best to put swap on whats left of the disk after calculating
one's other partition needs. The boot image should end up in the
lowest sector
On Aug 24, 2007, at 7:23 AM, Ron Johnson wrote:
I'm a big proponent of swap *files*. Once you allocate the whole
disk, there no room left over if you want to add another swap
partition, whereas you can add as many swap files as your heart
desires, whenever you need them.
I'd always heard
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On 08/24/07 11:16, David Brodbeck wrote:
On Aug 24, 2007, at 7:23 AM, Ron Johnson wrote:
I'm a big proponent of swap *files*. Once you allocate the whole
disk, there no room left over if you want to add another swap
partition, whereas you can
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Ron Johnson wrote:
On 08/24/07 11:16, David Brodbeck wrote:
On Aug 24, 2007, at 7:23 AM, Ron Johnson wrote:
I'm a big proponent of swap *files*. Once you allocate the whole
disk, there no room left over if you want to add another swap
partition,
I'm a big proponent of swap *files*. Once you allocate the whole
disk, there no room left over if you want to add another swap
partition, whereas you can add as many swap files as your heart
desires, whenever you need them.
I'd always heard that swap files are slower than swap partitions.
Cassiano Bertol Leal wrote:
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Ron Johnson wrote:
On 08/24/07 11:16, David Brodbeck wrote:
On Aug 24, 2007, at 7:23 AM, Ron Johnson wrote:
I'm a big proponent of swap *files*. Once you allocate the whole
disk, there no room left over if you want to
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On 08/24/07 12:51, Stefan Monnier wrote:
I'm a big proponent of swap *files*. Once you allocate the whole
disk, there no room left over if you want to add another swap
partition, whereas you can add as many swap files as your heart
desires,
On Aug 24, 2007, at 10:24 AM, Cassiano Bertol Leal wrote:
If you use LVM you're stuck with a separate, non-LVM /boot partition
AFAIK. Or is this outated info?
I think that's true. I don't usually make the root filesystem an LVM
volume, anyway. In most distributions it's quite small and
On Aug 24, 2007, at 12:13 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
I read recently on this list that LVM is not portable across CPU
architectures, so that you can't just upgrade your mobo to AMD64 and
retain your /home.
Well, now you've got me curious. If so, this is potentially a
serious issue, because
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 13:14:42 -0700
David Brodbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Aug 24, 2007, at 10:24 AM, Cassiano Bertol Leal wrote:
If you use LVM you're stuck with a separate, non-LVM /boot partition
AFAIK. Or is this outated info?
I think that's true. I don't usually make the root
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 13:51:14 -0400
Stefan Monnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
All my drives have 2 partitions: a /boot (with ext2 or ext3) of about 100MB
and the rest is an partition dedicated to LVM. The reason for the separate
/boot is that GRUB does not know how to read files from LVM
Celejar wrote:
Cassiano Bertol Leal wrote:
If you use LVM you're stuck with a separate, non-LVM /boot partition
AFAIK. Or is this outated info?
I believe it is actually outdated information; GRUB apparently supports
LVM these days:
http://grub.enbug.org/LVMandRAID
Check the version
* Martin McCormick [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-08-24 08:10:41 -0500]:
It appears after reading the fdisk manual, that it is
best to put swap on whats left of the disk after calculating
one's other partition needs. The boot image should end up in the
lowest sector numbers. Do I understand
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On 08/24/07 16:02, Klein Moebius wrote:
[snip]
In older machines where hard drive physical speed can be a noticable
factor in machine performance, it makes sense to to place your
partitions that see the most activity in terms of read/write accesses
I read recently on this list that LVM is not portable across CPU
Don't believe everything you read.
Stefan
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On Aug 24, 2007, at 1:18 PM, David Brodbeck wrote:
On Aug 24, 2007, at 12:13 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
I read recently on this list that LVM is not portable across CPU
architectures, so that you can't just upgrade your mobo to AMD64 and
retain your /home.
Well, now you've got me curious. If
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On 08/24/07 16:24, Stefan Monnier wrote:
I read recently on this list that LVM is not portable across CPU
Don't believe everything you read.
That's why I qualified my statement.
I think it was Doug Tutty who reported here that he had LVM
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 06:55:09PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 08/24/07 16:24, Stefan Monnier wrote:
I read recently on this list that LVM is not portable across CPU
Don't believe everything you read.
That's why I qualified my statement.
I think it was Doug Tutty who reported here
David Brodbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd always heard that swap files are slower than swap partitions. Is
that a myth?
Not a myth, just old information. It used to be the case that swap files
were slower than swap partitions, but this stopped being true sometime
around kernel 2.4
Also, is
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