Ahhhh! If i were, theoretically, wanting to just reformat /boot, and rebuild it, how would i do that?
I had this exact need last weekend... eric On Saturday 21 June 2003 07:03 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Saturday June 21 2003 12:21 am, eric huff wrote: > > I'm still trying to figure out if /boot should be seperate, but > > here is an example of mine: > > > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > > /dev/hda6 621M 86M 535M 14% / > > /dev/hda5 172M 6.4M 157M 4% /boot > > I've used a separate /boot since civileme recommended doin > so quite a while ago if your other partitions are journalized > fs's. He said to use ext2 or ext3 for /boot, specially with XFS > or ReisersFS / and other partitions. So I do, particularly since > civileme's specialty was HDD, fs's and partition QA. > > I've found it handy at install time too. I run cooker and > have a lot of kernels in /boot. Havin 'em in a separate partition > gives me the option to keep 'em, or go ahead and reformat /boot > to clear it out when various cooker iso's start comin out. Mines > 46MB, and over 20mb is used. Most people would only need about a > 20mb /boot.
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