[PLUG] Re: Partition recommendations

[Chris Constantine]

Imad wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Doug Porter wrote:
> 
> 
>>wwolfe@purdue.edu wrote:
>>
>>>I know I need to put /boot at the beginning of the drive, but I
>>>don't know how big to make it.
>>>
>>If you use grub as your boot loader and have lba enabled in your
>>bios for your disk you won't need a /boot, because Grub can boot
>>an operating system past the 8 GB mark.  I suspect recent
>>versions of lilo have this capability too.
>>
>>If you still want to make a /boot I used to make them about 20
>>MB.  It really just depends on how many kernels you want to have
>>lying around though.
>>
> 
> IIRC, you can't use most journalized file systems (X, Reiser, etc.) for
> where the kernel is stored. So if you're going to use a journalized file
> system (except ext3), you should have a seperate boot partition. I'd
> recommend 40-80 MB or so dedicated to that, just in case you want to use
> multiple kernels someday.
> 


I use ReiserFS as my my main / partition.  I have no /boot or /home 
partition.  My kernel is sitting happily on a reiserfs partition.  The 
reason this works is that the kernel being used is really stored in the 
fs independant MBR.

Chris C.