On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 22:09:56 +0800 William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am not sure what it is about gentoo but I have lost /boot a couple of > times now when shutdown with it mounted (mounts as ext3, runs as ext2 on > boot). Never happened on Mandrake or redhat. > > After a few painful rescues, I now make /boot is unmounted when not > needed. >
Security freaks will complain, but I have been with gentoo almost since the
beginning, and I have never created a /boot partition. I never have to remember
to mount /boot when needed. No problems ever.
Don't worry, many feel that you HAVE to have seperate /boot, /home, /usr, /var, and so on partitions....
Hall
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