On 10/03/11 09:51, Matthew Daubney wrote:
Hello,
I'm looking at quad booting my laptop (Win 7, Ubuntu (dev),
debian(stable) and LFS) and wondered if it was possible to use a
shared /boot partition across the 3 linux distros. The main reason for
doing so would be so that everything is more tidy, but also to reduce
wasted space!
I used to run with a separate /boot partition for years. It works fine.
Just when you install the various Linux OSs you need to use the
"advanced" partitioning option and tell it to use but not format /boot.
http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/11/30/build-your-own-pc-part-iii/
(Read some of the comments for a tad more too)
To be honest, i'm not sure if it gives that much of a win any more
though, but I certainly don't think it's much of a problem either.
alord@lobsang:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6 15G 5.3G 8.5G 39% /
/dev/sda1 471M 121M 325M 28% /boot
/dev/sda8 250G 188G 63G 75% /home
alord@lobsang:~$
HTH
Al
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