On 07 Oct 2002 10:01:41 +0100 Bob Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 10:10, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: > > I have a partition with user accounts and all my stuff, whihc is not in > > any OS partition. I typically make a partition for the OS itself, > > putting the whole OS in the one partition. Selecting the partition gets > > me the OS. Caldera, as an example, lets me put the partitions how I > > want. I was just wondering to what extent Gentoo allows this as well. > > You can do this, but the reason Gentoo advocates a separate boot > partition is security, as the default in its fstab is to not mount /boot > automatically. Also, you then can use the same /boot partition if you > were to have Gentoo + another distribution, saving a bit of space. Space saving would be ok. But as so much tends to be different in the distro beyond the boot stuff, I am not sure I would realize a savings. Of course, with a distro like gentoo, maybe package locations and all are more 'standard'. Do you know if there is any doc somewhere that I may have missed that describes putting everything in one partition? Maybe it is less involved than I think. Time to experiment. -- +============================+===============================+ | Roger Oberholtzer | E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | OPQ Systems AB | WWW: http://www.opq.se/ | | Erik Dahlbergsgatan 41-43 | Phone: Int + 46 8 314223 | | 115 32 Stockholm | Mobile: Int + 46 733 621657 | | Sweden | Fax: Int + 46 8 302602 | +============================+===============================+ _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
