Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1632 mails)

[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Vince L wrote:
> On Monday 23 July 2007 12:27, James Knott wrote:
>   
> > Matthew Stringer wrote:
> >     
> > > I always thought Suse would complain if you made a boot partition less
> > > than 75MB?!
> > >
> > > Can't you just do away with the partition? Unmount it move everything
> > > to the root filesystem but still under /boot, re-install grub & use
> > > Fdisk to change the boot flag over. Linux has not needed /boot on a
> > > separate partition for a long time now and using symlinks is messy.
> > >       
> > I have often used smaller than 75 MB for /boot and haven't seen that
> > complain.  Also, if you're using LVM or software RAID, /boot must not be
> > in either of those.
> >
> >
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> >     
>
> But presumably, /boot does not need to be on a primary partition.
>   
No it doesn't.  As I showed in another message, my main home system has 
it on hda6, which is a logical partition.  On that same system, / is on 
an LVM partition.

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