On Fri, 2012-02-10 at 12:25 -0700, don fisher wrote: > 3. Why do they force a boot partition? As far as I know using /boot > has worked since Fedora2. Because the boot process can only start from certain filing systems, it's more restricted than other things. But the system, once booted, can make use of better filing systems. And it does use a better one, by default. Also, *some* computers can only boot from the low cylinders on the disc, this issue has *always* been the case. With a boot partition, it's relatively easy to always ensure that the boot partition is readable by the BIOS. But when boot is just files in /, then they could be placed anywhere in the disc, including unreadable places. Even if the system was initially bootable, that's no guarantee that your system can continue to boot up without a boot partition. Any updates that get installed might put newer files that are used by the boot processes into an unreadable location. > 4. Why is the starting group number 1000? I was assigned the ID/group > of 239 back in 1994. All of my systems know me by that number, which > is very convenient when you NFS mount many disks. I > exited /etc/login.defs to allow 239 and have had many mysterious > problems. system-config-users does not appear to work! How did you manage that? As far as I know, the default lowest ID for users has been 500, since the early Red Hat Linux days, long before Fedora existed. So, in the normal run of things, you'd have to have manually selected that ID, you wouldn't get assigned it. There's a division that regards IDs below 500 as being system users, and above 499 as actual users, and treats them differently in various ways, some of which *might* cause you a problem if you try to do something different. Other distros use 1000 as the dividing line. And now Fedora is falling into line with them, for consistency's sake across all *ix distros. Not that I can forsee a need for 999 system users, but then I do not do any large scale kind of computing (e.g. lots of services installed for lots of users). > Is there a place where the logic for these changes would be > documented? The release notes, as each release comes out...? -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- 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 Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
