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Partitioning for Linux

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Originally posted by: Nothinman
Thats true, but some distros still recommend having a separate /boot partition...but thats another story
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That way you can have a read-only place to stick your kernel and initrd incase something happens to the root fs you can still get a partial command prompt. And lilo/grub don't support all the filesystems available yet, I know lilo and grub had issues with XFS before (since it's what my rootfs is) and I'm not sure if they're fixed in the upstream releases or not yet.
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Hmmm... Maybe that was one of my problems with XFS.
 
Possible n0c, I believe LILO would overwrite part of XFS' superblock with it's boot record, I'm not sure how it works now because I still have an ext2 /boot =)
 
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