2009/10/30 Daniel Pittman <[email protected]> > Actually, there is a second reason for /boot on a separate partition: until > very, very, very recently grub1 shipped with most Linux distributions, and it > was a fairly stupid bit of software.
Thanks for the heads up. That's the only reason I keep doing that (a few Mb for /boot, rest in one large PV). Won't be relevant for CentOS 5, which is what I install on servers every day, but still nice to know I should look for it in the desktop/laptop Ubuntu's. Another potential casus-belli: once you use the entire disk as a PV - would you still create a partition table with one partition in it? Personally I'd do it that way because it helps "label" the disk with something anything can read - even a Windows would know that the disk is occupied by *something*. Cheers, --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
