-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 08/24/07 12:51, Stefan Monnier wrote: >>> I'm a big proponent of swap *files*. Once you allocate the whole >>> disk, there no room left over if you want to add another swap >>> partition, whereas you can add as many swap files as your heart >>> desires, whenever you need them. > >> I'd always heard that swap files are slower than swap partitions. Is that >> a myth? > >> Also, is there any good reason to have a separate /boot on a modern system? >> I always thought /boot was just a kludge to get around old BIOSes that >> couldn't load anything that wasn't on the first part of the disk. I tend >> to just combine /boot and / on my newer systems -- >> am I taking some kind of risk by doing so? > > All my drives have 2 partitions: a /boot (with ext2 or ext3) of about 100MB > and the rest is an partition dedicated to LVM. The reason for the separate > /boot is that GRUB does not know how to read files from LVM volumes, so > I need to load the kernel and initrd files from an ext[23]. Everything else > (/, /home, swap, etc..) is placed in LVM volumes.
I read recently on this list that LVM is not portable across CPU architectures, so that you can't just upgrade your mobo to AMD64 and retain your /home. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGzy3eS9HxQb37XmcRAnDpAJ9KEs2wvyB8i+AeUK1B1oaeivM8FwCgk3nt iG1Dfg4nC25bBbsFDgMDwNo= =XxMf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
