At Tue, 23 Jun 2015 13:49:08 +0100 CentOS mailing list <centos@centos.org> wrote:
> > Do most people today have /boot on a separate partition, > or do they (you) have it on the / partition ? The default CentOS installer always puts /boot on a separate partition. This is mostly because, the default CentOS installer uses LVM for the bulk of the disk and Grub is *generally* clueless WRT LVM (at least Grub V1, not sure how smart Grub V2 is). Also, there are lots of 'fun' options for what/where the root partition can be, not all of them compatible with what Grub (or other boot loaders) know how to deal with. Having /boot on its own (small) partition, using something 'simple' for a file system makes things 'easy' for bootloaders. Once the kernel is fired up it can load all sorts of modules to allow it to mount the root file system, everything from exotic file systems to LVM and RAID, etc. Another advantage of having /boot on its own partition is supporting multiple linux flavors that is, it is possible to 'share' /boot between CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, etc. if one wants to, although it is really easier to pick one system for your 'host' and then install VMs for all of the others, but sometimes one needs to test things with different Linux flavors *on the bare metal* for various reasons. > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Custom Software Services http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Linux Administration Services hel...@deepsoft.com -- Webhosting Services _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
