On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 04:21:08PM +0000, Nuno Magalh??es wrote: > > > That's part of why I put swap in LVM. Why not put swap in LVM? > Well, basically 'cos the little i'vre read of LVM seemed to confuse > more that simplify and i don't wanna waste too much time setting this > up. It's just one disk, one home system, nothing mission critical. As > far as i now the advantage is that you can change partition sizes but > how often would i need that, especially when i know, for this system, > what sizes are more or less required? > > My big question was is it worth it to have anything more than / and > /home on a home system and, apparently, there's no real gain. The > /boot partition has the use of not locking the system if / fills up, > having / and /home on LVM would enable me to grow / if it gets too > crowded - even though i still think 20 GB is more than enough, its > biggest chunk ight now is a 3.6GB /usr
Seperate /boot does nothing about booting with full root partition. Many system tools refuse to start at boot if / is full. The boot loader doesn't care one way or the other. The only reason for a seperate /boot is to make the boot files be somewhere the boot loader can read, such as with root on LVM, or a BIOS with a cylinder limit for booting, root on raid other than raid 1, etc. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
