Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
>On Monday 06 June 2005 03:02, Digby Tarvin wrote:
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>>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??
>>
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>security.
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>You will not accidentely overwrite vmlinuz, nor will it removed by a rampant
>script, when /boot is on a different partition.
>
>
Hi,
Agree with the two reasons pointed above (use separate /boot/), would
like to add the possibility to have encrypted root-partition ("/").
Could also help for a easier rescue usage.
Not recommended but sometimes is used.
HTH. Rumen
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