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At Sun, 08 Jul 2007 16:25:06 +0100 Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Sat, 7 Jul 2007 09:03:47 -0500, Dan Farrell wrote: |
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>> > It's not an error really. You are not meant to mount /boot every |
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>> > time you boot - only when you want to change anything in it. |
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>> There's nothing wrong with having it mounted, only generally there's no |
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>> reason to access it after boot and so making it available merely |
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>> introduces the possibility of messing it up. |
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> And having it unmounted causes numerous threads about problems caused by |
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> updating the kernel when /boot is not mounted. I prefer to have fstab |
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> mount /boot ro [*], so it can't get touched accidentally, but trying to |
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> update the kernel without remounting it gives a clear error message. |
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> [*] On machines already set up with a separate /boot. On new installs I |
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> don't bother with a separate /boot, there's no real advantage, so I tend |
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> to stick with / (including /boot) swap and an LVM partition for everything |
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> else. |
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