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On 12/5/2009 4:35 AM, Duncan wrote: |
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> So FWIW, your "small" 8 gig partition for boot-time compatibility |
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> purposes is sort of already built into the GPT/EFI spec. That would |
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> contain all you needed to boot the kernel, and if you chose not to build |
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> them into your kernels, your ntfs and other kernel modules would be |
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> loaded from /boot as standard initramfs/initrd, if necessary, or from the |
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> standard/lib/modules/<kern-ver> subdir, if not necessary to load /. |
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Booting was one of my least concern (it's a portable external harddisk, |
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I don't need an OS in there), I use the FAT partition to store NTFS |
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drivers (source and precompiled) for systems that don't already have |
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NTFS-3G installed and where internet is scarce or compiler is |
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unavailable (e.g. Gentoo LiveCD or Macs) since the rest of my external |
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harddisk is formatted as NTFS. |
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These systems are often not my own (a friend's Macbook) or is volatile |
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(e.g. Gentoo LiveCD, which can only read NTFS). The 8G is small compared |
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to the external's size (120G), but big enough to transfer a |
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single-layer-DVD worth of data if I need to (once I salvaged data from a |
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broken Windows NTFS filesystem with Gentoo LiveCD to the FAT partition). |
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