On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 00:03, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Saturday June 21 2003 12:21 am, eric huff wrote: > > I'm still trying to figure out if /boot should be seperate, but > > here is an example of mine: > > > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > > /dev/hda6 621M 86M 535M 14% / > > /dev/hda5 172M 6.4M 157M 4% /boot > > I've used a separate /boot since civileme recommended doin so > quite a while ago if your other partitions are journalized fs's. He > said to use ext2 or ext3 for /boot, specially with XFS or ReisersFS > / and other partitions. So I do, particularly since civileme's > specialty was HDD, fs's and partition QA. > > I've found it handy at install time too. I run cooker and have > a lot of kernels in /boot. Havin 'em in a separate partition gives > me the option to keep 'em, or go ahead and reformat /boot to clear > it out when various cooker iso's start comin out. Mines 46MB, and > over 20mb is used. Most people would only need about a 20mb /boot.
Hmmm...funny - I'm even using ReiserFS on my /boot partition... I still like "spreading it out" and load balancing - so putting the SWAP and /tmp on different physical drives is always a good thing for getting the most out of a system...(IF you've got more than one drive to play with) -- Sun Jun 22 09:10:00 EST 2003 09:10:00 up 18:20, 5 users, load average: 1.87, 1.92, 2.17 ----------------------------------------------------------------- | __ __ |kuhn media australia | | /-oo /| |'-. |http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' |stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ----------------------------------------------------------------- linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1 & RH 7.3 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 ----------------------------------------------------------------- * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * "What is the Nature of God?" CLICK...CLICK...WHIRRR...CLICK...=BEEP!= 1 QT. SOUR CREAM 1 TSP. SAUERKRAUT 1/2 CUT CHIVES. STIR AND SPRINKLE WITH BACON BITS. "I've just GOT to start labeling my software..." -- Bloom County
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