Re: /boot on a separate partition?

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Phelps, Matthew wrote:
> FWIW, we don't use a separate partition and haven't had any issues (we do
> set up / as a separate partition only 5GB large). We have over 150 systems
> that have been chugging along with many versions of CentOS this way for
> years.
>
It was always recommended to have /boot as a separate partition. Note that
you MUST have /efi as a separate partition, and that has to be mounted
/boot/EFI/efi.... What a pain.

> We only use ext3,4 filesystems though. And no volume manager.

We've mostly moved to ext4, and we're moving, at least for drives > 2TB,
to upstream's default of xfs.
>
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 10:42 AM, <m.roth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> > Do most people today have /boot on a separate partition,
>> > or do they (you) have it on the / partition ?
>> >
>> Separate partition, 100% of the time.
>>
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