On Sat, 7 Jul 2007 09:03:47 -0500, Dan Farrell wrote: > > It's not an error really. You are not meant to mount /boot every > > time you boot - only when you want to change anything in it. > > There's nothing wrong with having it mounted, only generally there's no > reason to access it after boot and so making it available merely > introduces the possibility of messing it up.
And having it unmounted causes numerous threads about problems caused by updating the kernel when /boot is not mounted. I prefer to have fstab mount /boot ro [*], so it can't get touched accidentally, but trying to update the kernel without remounting it gives a clear error message. [*] On machines already set up with a separate /boot. On new installs I don't bother with a separate /boot, there's no real advantage, so I tend to stick with / (including /boot) swap and an LVM partition for everything else. -- Neil Bothwick "Mr. Worf, scan that ship." "Aye Captain. 300 dpi?"
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