On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 07:26:26PM -0700, Soren Harward wrote:
> On Mon 09 Feb 2004 at 17:31:54, Justin Findlay said:
> >   64 MB /boot #and turn on 'noauto' in /etc/fstab (see 'man fstab')
> 
> I've never found a /boot partition to be necessary, or even useful.
> Supposedly it's so that you don't accidentally hose your boot files
> (kernel and grub/lilo config).  But if you hose your root partition,
> you're screwed anyway.  It's just a lot better to boot off a knoppix CD,
> chroot into your hard drive, and start repairs from there.

True, but if you are running more than one distro, it is easier to have a common /boot 
partition.


Justin

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