Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (295 mails)

[Hans Witvliet <hwit@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 02:25 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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> The Monday 2007-12-03 at 13:07 -0000, Sid Boyce wrote:
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> > That would be a step a long way back in time. I thought slicing and dicing 
> > a 
> > separate /boot partition went out with the need for steam trains, when PC 
> > BIOS restrictions meant you couldn't boot from a partition extending beyond 
> > the first 1024 cylinders.
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> Saying that is as if the politicians say that there is no need for 
> protection or that your job and savings are secure :-P
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> The theory is that you do not need a separate boot partition. However... 
> the truth is that in some scenarios it does help, and my xtall ball tells 
> me this /may/ be one of those cases.

AFAIK, /boot can not be put in an LVM. everything else can.

hw
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