Re: [SLE] /usr almost full
From: Marcos Vinicius Lazarini (lazarini_at_nics.unicamp.br)
Date: 01/10/05
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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 18:01:21 -0200 To: SLE <suse-linux-e@suse.com>
Carlos E. R. wrote:
> The Thursday 2005-01-06 at 19:41 -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote:
>>/boot is a fairly new concept to me and I assume makes diagnosing boot
>>issues easier.
>
> No, it was a small ext2 partition (one or two tracks) positioned below the
> 1024th track. It was needed till a few years ago because the bios was not
> able to read beyond that track, and lilo uses the bios functions to read
> from the disk at boot time to load the kernel into memory.
>
> That limitation does not apply nowdays, and thus that partition is not
> needed. /boot can simply be a subdirectory of /.
It's worth mention that (the regular) GRUB doesn't work with LVM. If you use
GRUB _and_ LVM, you have to put /boot outside LVM. Recent versions of LILO
doesn't have this limitation.
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