Hi, >> Another important advantage to partitions is that the existence >> of a boot partition isolates the firmware from changes in the >> filesystem used for the root. > > can you explain this a bit more?
Concrete example: if you want to use btrfs on your root filesystem, you must have a separate /boot partition, because no firmware or boot loader (including grub) can yet mount btrfs. -- Chris Ball <c...@laptop.org> _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
