Re: File layout?

Martin Gunger wrote:

>From: "Johan Lindquist" <[email protected]>
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>>On ons, 30 okt 2002 at 16:18 GMT, gazing longingly at the horizon,
>>Christian Herzyk <[email protected]>
>>felt a deep, passionate desire to let the following be known:
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>>>(except I still don't see a really good reason to keep boot
>>>unmounted).
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>>The way I see it, there's no real good reason to mount it, so why
>>would you?
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>I have a better question, Why have a boot partition at all?
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>The size it needs is only
>#du -sh /boot/
>2.3M    /boot
>two meg with one old image and one new image.... the only reason is if you
>run two types of Linux dists
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The main reason I know of is out of history when lilo couldn't boot from 
partitions above 1024 cyl.
Then you used a small boot at the beginning of the disk.
The second is that if you keep /boot unmounted your kernel is safe 
(well, that would be a reason for not mounting it).

Chris