Scott Mazur wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 02:19:46 -0500, Hoyt Bailey wrote
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part12
24601004 3389416 19961900 15% /backup
Cool! Someone else with a hankering for a backup partition.
I partition every HD with at least one backup partion (usually mounted
on /backup/hda, /backup/hdb, etc) and usually give it 50% of the disk
space. This way it's at least big enough to save a copy of the entire
working partitions (or a good supply incremental backups), although to be
honest, 20g backup more than covers my needs. And more importantly, having
a backup partition on two drives guarantees you won't be toasted should one
drive fail. Just my personal preferences...
I'm curious. What is the reasoning for splitting /boot at all? Why not
simply leave it in the root / partition? I've always seen it suggested to
be split into it's own partion, I just don't see the point.
Scott
--
Nothing goes to waste when Little Fish are near!
(http://www.littlefish.ca)
The main reasion has to do with boot managers, and BIOS limits. Having
a seperate /boot partition let you put it near the start of the disk, so
boot managers that use the BIOS to load could be sure of being able to
load their files. The old 1024 cylinder limit on older machines, and
the drive size limits on some BIOS. While Linux can see the entire
drive, even if the BIOS can not, LILO, and to a lesser extent Grub use
the BIOS to load, and so their files need to be in the part of the drive
the BIOS can access. If your BIOS can see the full drive, then it
probably will not be a problem. (Old habits die hard!)
Mikkel
--
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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