On Mon, 7 Oct 2002 13:07:33 +0200 Roger Oberholtzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 07 Oct 2002 10:01:41 +0100 > Bob Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 10:10, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: > > > I have a partition with user accounts and all my stuff, whihc is > > > not in any OS partition. I typically make a partition for the OS > > > itself, putting the whole OS in the one partition. Selecting the > > > partition gets me the OS. Caldera, as an example, lets me put > > > the partitions how I want. I was just wondering to what extent > > > Gentoo allows this as well. > > > > You can do this, but the reason Gentoo advocates a separate boot > > partition is security, as the default in its fstab is to not mount > > /boot automatically. Also, you then can use the same /boot > > partition if you were to have Gentoo + another distribution, > > saving a bit of space. > > Space saving would be ok. But as so much tends to be different in > the distro beyond the boot stuff, I am not sure I would realize a > savings. Of course, with a distro like gentoo, maybe package > locations and all are more'standard'. > > Do you know if there is any doc somewhere that I may have missed > that describes putting everything in one partition? Maybe it is less > involved than I think. Time to experiment. >
There really isn't any space saving when you are talking about a /boot partition, because this is so tiny as to be immaterial. I'm not aware of any documentation related to putting everything in one partition, since this is just a matter of not creating a /boot partition and removing the /boot partition line from /etc/fstab. Since I have been to lazy to create a kernel compile script to do the mount automatically and since I can never remember to mount /boot when it's needed, I eliminate /boot as soon as possible. YMMV. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area - WWTLRD? - Code Python gentoo(since 01/01/01) now 1.4beta kernel 2.4.18+ ext3 GCC3.2 xfce-sylpheed-skipstone _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
