On 11/17/2010 04:19 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 16:13:15 -0700 > Phil Meyer wrote: > >> We have noticed a couple times that if /boot is very full BEFORE >> preupgrade downloads anything, it will prompt to do a network based >> preupgrade which works well. > Just for curiosity, why have a separate /boot partition at all? > I always just make a single / partition, install everything on it > and never run out of space in /boot or /home because it is all the > same chunk of space. One reason is that not all file system types are supported by grub. For instance, until very recently it was nearly impossible to boot from a logical volume. So if you wanted to do software based raid, your only choice was a separate /boot partition. It was the disparity with grub that caused the Red Hat 'convention', or tradition, to always create a separate /boot. Even now, I don't think that grub can boot from a btrfs partition, and btrfs could possibly become the default in a future release. I expect the practice of a separate /boot partition to be with us for a while yet. Good Luck! -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
