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On Saturday 09 May 2009, Dale wrote: |
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> I was talking about with just a plain file system. I read in a |
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> install guide somewhere when I was installing ages ago that having |
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> /boot on a separate partition, and not always mounted, was a good |
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> security practice. That way no one could alter the kernel since it |
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> was not mounted. |
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> I do agree that if a person was on the system and able to get root |
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> access, they could them mount the /boot partition as well. I never |
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> was really sure why this was thought to work. I used a separate |
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> /boot because for a while I was dual booting Mandrake and Gentoo. |
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> Old habit now I guess. |
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It's a suggestion for security against user errors; I'm pretty sure it |
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was there long before genkernel came out, when there |
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wasn't "automation" in kernel building. |
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Furthermore you can use a non journalled filesystem for /boot. |
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Ciao |
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Francesco |
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Linux Version 2.6.29-gentoo-r3, Compiled #2 SMP PREEMPT Sat May 9 |
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18:15:29 CEST 2009 |
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Two 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processors, 4GB RAM, 4018.42 Bogomips Total |
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aemaeth |
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