On Vi, 09 apr 21, 09:14:31, [email protected] wrote: > On Fri, Apr 09, 2021 at 09:07:04AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Jo, 08 apr 21, 07:21:04, Eike Lantzsch ZP6CGE wrote: > > > On Donnerstag, 8. April 2021 02:15:00 -04 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > > > > > For me the simplicity of having 'boot' on '/' wins in most cases. It > > > > avoids a lot of issues (like running out of space in /boot) with no > > > > significant downside I'm aware of. > > > > > > With my setups it is far more likely that / fills up than /boot so having > > > a separate /boot partition at least allows me to boot and solve the > > > problem easily. > > > > Sorry, I just can't imagine a scenario in which some space in /boot can > > help with a full /, except maybe to (ab)use it to move stuff around(?). > > I think Eike's point of view is "from the other end": / filling up > makes /boot full and thus (possibly) disfunctional, preventing the > next boot. > > I'm not sure about a concrete mechanism for that, but it would be > annoying indeed, forcing you to either whip-up a rescue medium.
I'm not aware of anything needing to write to /boot during boot.
As far as I know /boot can even stay unmounted (or read-only), except
for kernel, bootloader, etc. upgrades.
What am I missing?
> (Remember: your only computer is currently refusing to boot, and
> you lent your last USB stick [1] to that nice friend yesterday evening)
> or surgically extracting your harddisk from your flimsy laptop to...
> drats, your only computer, etc. you get the idea ;-)
>
> Cheers
>
> [1] which, of course, had a current rescue system, because everyone
> has that :-)
apt show grml-rescueboot
(which of course won't help if the boot device is failing, but then you
have bigger problems anyway)
Kind regards,
Andrei
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