On Sat, Sep 15 2012, Kerin Millar wrote: > Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> >> I was not surprised to see that the latest manual has root+usr combined, >> but was surprised that they specify an additional small /boot partition. >> I had thought that went out of favor a few years ago. Is it back >> because of the root+usr merge? Do people here recommend a separate >> /boot? > > It's just the way the Gentoo docs have always been. As with most > things related to Unix, retrospective justifications are > commonplace. I think it made a good deal more sense 10 years ago than > it does today. Back then, ext2 was a safer option for boot loaders and > live-distros alike. Nowadays, it generally doesn't matter and can be a > source of confusion (I always thought that the self-referencing boot > symlink was silly). There are some situations where it could afford > more flexibility. However, I no longer specify a separate /boot unless > there is a clear case for doing so.
Thanks. I will do the same > >> >> I know that it is important to have ssd partitions well aligned. It >> appears that fdisk is doing this automatically (see below). Does the >> following partitioning seem OK? >> > These are all perfectly aligned except for the first partition, not > that it matters. Incidentally, no special parameters are required for > tools such as pvcreate, mkfs.ext4, mkfs.xfs and such. They will > generally do the right thing based on the information exposed by > sysfs. I was actually thinking about just that as I will be using mkfs.ext4 and many of the lvm tools, so thanks in advance. allan
