Re: Can a (second) hard disc consist of only 1 extended/logical partition? Or is at least one primary necessary?

In comp.os.linux.hardware, Michael Black wrote:

On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, Lew Pitcher wrote:

In comp.os.linux.hardware, s. keeling wrote:

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Andrew Gideon <c172driver1@xxxxxxxxxx>:
On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 03:31:41 +0200, Aragorn wrote:

hierarchy tree. For instance, you best split off */var* and */home*
from the root filesystem, and have */tmp* exist on a /tmpfs./

The style I like is to have one partition for /boot

Why? What's that get you if /sbin is unreadable?

Why would you think that the only dependancy is on the readability of
/sbin?

A separate /boot partition
- can be used with older machines where there is a BIOS limit to the
location of the OS
- can be mounted as read/only while the rest of the filesystem tree is
r/w - can be backed up to a duplicate partition for recovery (alternate
boot)
purposes
- can be stored as an ext2 (or minix, or vfat or ...) filesystem while
the
rest of the filesystem tree is some other fs (like ext3 or reiserfs)

I don't even mount /boot unless I have to make changes to it. I suppose
you'll now give me a good reason why that's bad,

No, I won't. To me, that's a perfectly acceptable step to take to secure
your system.

but by definition /boot
is only needed at boot time, and once you set up the bootloader so it
knows where the actual kernel is, I can't see any reason why it needs
to be mounted unless you are actually making changes to it.

Michael

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