Re: [gentoo-user] /boot and booting...

2005-06-06 Thread Digby Tarvin
I agree that trying to size partitions optimally is an annoying chore, but I gather LVM should help with that problem - though I havn't tried it yet. However I disagree about the drive wear argument. Sensible partitioning can be used to reduce seek time by keeping related data together, and more

Re: [gentoo-user] /boot and booting...

2005-06-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Hi, since my whole system (except /home) fits on one tape, the backup argument is not too convincing for me. And it does not matter if /usr/lib is on its own part, or part of / - if it is gone, you have a problem ;) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] /boot and booting...

2005-06-06 Thread Richard Fish
Digby Tarvin wrote: Personally I only use RAID for non-static filesystems (root changes relatively rarely, and is small, so I just make a fresh backup after any change. In addition I have twice been involved in trying to recover filesystems (thankfully not my own) that have been lost *because* of

Re: [gentoo-user] /boot and booting...

2005-06-06 Thread Colin
On 6/5/05, Digby Tarvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Following on from the recent discussions on grub and booting, is there a good reason for having a separate partition for /boot, other than perhaps to overcome BIOS addressing limitations for people with very large root partitions?? A separate

Re: [gentoo-user] /boot and booting...

2005-06-06 Thread Digby Tarvin
Hi, I guess that means that you either have smaller disks than me, or a larger tape drive... But assuming you do regular backups, how do you figure out which parts of the filesystem need to be scanned if the static stuff isn't confined to a separate filesystem? What do you use for your tape

Re: [gentoo-user] /boot and booting...

2005-06-06 Thread Petr Kocmid
On Monday 06 of June 2005 3:02, Digby Tarvin wrote: Following on from the recent discussions on grub and booting, is there a good reason for having a separate partition for /boot, other than perhaps to overcome BIOS addressing limitations for people with very large root partitions?? A good

Re: [gentoo-user] /boot and booting...

2005-06-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Hi, well I have a 120GB drive, splitt into 56GB system, 47GB home, 2GB swap, 15MB /boot and a 'ply around partition' REST. The /-partition will fit fine on a single 35GB DLT, compression on or of does not matter, because / is never really full enough for needing more.. That is why, I just

[gentoo-user] /boot and booting...

2005-06-05 Thread Digby Tarvin
Following on from the recent discussions on grub and booting, is there a good reason for having a separate partition for /boot, other than perhaps to overcome BIOS addressing limitations for people with very large root partitions?? The reason I ask is that I am quite particular about my

Re: [gentoo-user] /boot and booting...

2005-06-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Monday 06 June 2005 03:02, Digby Tarvin wrote: Following on from the recent discussions on grub and booting, is there a good reason for having a separate partition for /boot, other than perhaps to overcome BIOS addressing limitations for people with very large root partitions?? security.

Re: [gentoo-user] /boot and booting...

2005-06-05 Thread Rumen Yotov
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Monday 06 June 2005 03:02, Digby Tarvin wrote: Following on from the recent discussions on grub and booting, is there a good reason for having a separate partition for /boot, other than perhaps to overcome BIOS addressing limitations for people with very large

Re: [gentoo-user] /boot and booting...

2005-06-05 Thread Richard Fish
Digby Tarvin wrote: Following on from the recent discussions on grub and booting, is there a good reason for having a separate partition for /boot, other than perhaps to overcome BIOS addressing limitations for people with very large root partitions?? Well, I do it for 2 reasons: 1. To make