On 22.01.2015 22:36, Adam Williamson wrote: > There's a proposed anaconda patch ATM which would disallow mounting an > existing partition as /boot or /var (or any subdirectory of those > except /var/www ) without reformatting it. i.e., you can't reuse an > existing partition with those mountpoints. > > I'm curious to know if anyone / many people do this, and if so, if > there's a particularly good use case for it; if so, we might want to > provide that feedback to the anaconda folks. > > There are a few references to using shared /boot on Google, but not > that many, and mostly for crazy multiboot configurations that we > really don't want to be stuck dealing with. Does anyone know of a > really sensible use case for this? > > For the record, this is actually re-hooking up code that was used in > oldUI - that is, F17 and earlier - but in oldUI it just produced a > warning you had to click through; the current patch flat disallows it. > The main driving force for this is > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1074358 , as it > keeps turning out to be annoyingly tricky to make sure that only newly- > installed kernels have their initramfs regenerated when installing to a > shared /boot partition. > I use a share in the boot. Please just drop the entire proposal. Thanks, poma -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
