Digby Tarvin wrote: >Following on from the recent discussions on grub and booting, >is there a good reason for having a separate partition for /boot, >other than perhaps to overcome BIOS addressing limitations for >people with very large root partitions?? > >
Well, I do it for 2 reasons: 1. To make sure all boot files are addressable through the BIOS. 2. To use raid0+encryption on my root filesystem. If you want your root filesystem to use encryption, software raid, LVM, etc, you need /boot and an initrd. As long as you brought it up, I have 11 main system partitions! Beat that! / /boot /tmp /var /home /opt /usr/local /usr/portage /usr/share /usr/src /mnt/archives (distfiles and packages go here) My reasoning on the above is: 1. I want all files necessary for booting the system (/[s]bin, /lib, /usr/[s]bin, /usr/lib, /etc) to be on one relatively small partition so they are physically near each other to cut down on the boot time. Since little from /usr/share, /usr/src, /usr/local, /home or /opt is used for booting, having these as separate filesystems keeps their files "out-of-the-way". 2. I want areas that have frequent changes (like /var and /usr/portage) to be separate to reduce the effects of fragmentation on the rest of the system. 3. Since the highest-numbered sectors of my disks are the worst performing, I want seldom used stuff like distfiles and ISO images to be there. Thus, /mnt/archives is at the end of my disks. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
