At Sun, 08 Jul 2007 16:25:06 +0100 Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
