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071002 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 02 October 2007, Neil Walker wrote: |
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>> Using reiserfs on a /boot partition is just plain silly. ;) |
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Yes indeed. You use 'ext2'. |
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>> why would you even want a /boot partition? |
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You keep it unmounted & why not keep it separate anyway ? |
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> /boot can't be on LVM & these days you do want LVM. |
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With 1 HDD of 320 GB (my plan), what are the advantages of LVM ? |
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There is at least a small amount of learning & fuss setting up LVM, |
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whereas without it you can simply rely on good old Fdisk. |
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BTW does anyone care to make the case for Grub ? Lilo is so easy. |
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(I don't mean to start a silly dispute, just to learn from others) |
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Otherwise, thanks for all the reassurance re Lilo & ReiserFS on 64 bits. |
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