On Thursday 18 May 2006 21:34, Richard Fish wrote: > > It is supposed to have noauto, because /boot does not need to be mounted > > in the normal course of events. GRUB doesn't use /etc/fstab, it uses > > grub.conf to find the kernel. The only time you need to mount /boot is > > when installing a new kernel. > > I disagree that it is 'supposed' to have noauto. This could make the > system more secure, but so could mounting it read-only. Users do > forget to mount it before updating the kernel, and they get confused > about why the system isn't booting from their freshly compiled kernel. > I am sure Maxim is not the only one to do this...
noauto was the "default". One "accident" a couple of years ago soon made me change to mounting /boot read-only (and successfully submitting a patch to genkernel to handle that). You can format an un-mounted filesystem. That's bad when it's /dev/sda1, and not in fact the /dev/sdb1 which you actually wanted to format. -- Mike Williams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
