On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 18:15:06 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > Me, I have always put ext2 on /boot. I just don't see much need in > > anything fancy for something that is used so seldom plus everything is > > likely stored somewhere else anyway. The kernel should be in the > > kernel source directory and a emerge of grub would restore everything > > else except the config. Not much to lose there.
One of the benefits of GRUB2 is that the information used to create the config file is in /etc. If /boot is toasted, you can recreate all you need with grub2-install grub2-mkconfig cd /usr/src/linux make install > Not to mention that /boot usually has a noauto option, so it's very > unlikely that a wayward prog can somehow bollix up the filesystem. Leaving /boot unmounted invites the inevitable error of forgetting to mount it before installing a new kernel. I prefer to mount it ro, that way its contents are available, protected from accidental overwriting and it shouts at you if you forget to remount it before installing a kernel or updating GRUB. -- Neil Bothwick But I thought YOU did the backups...
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