On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 05:32:25PM -0500, Allan Wind wrote: > On 2008-01-18T14:05:25-0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > > (8) Is there any advantage to using ext2 for /boot rather than ext3? > > > > no to either > > /boot should not be a single partition by itself.. > > it is part of /bin, /lib, /sbin /etc ... which is the rootfs > > > > even if /boot is fine, if your "rootfs" is corrupt, you can't boot > > so there is no point to separating /boot ... we'll leave network boot, > > boooting off cd, and booting off usb stick for another ballgame > > Your analysis is correct. The only reason for having /boot on a > separate partition is as a work-around for the (historical) 1024 > cylinders / 504 MB limits of IDE.
just out of curiosity, what about the option of mounting /boot as read-only? I suppose some of that can be done with file permissions, but having to go through a remount of /boot before mucking about there, is probably a good thing. A
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