[NTLUG:Discuss] Separate /boot still a good idea?

[Ben Weatherall]

Pretty much everyone you talk to will have a different opinion, but I always find comfort in a separate /home partition. /boot, /tmp and /var are others I often consider making separate as well, but I let my usage dictate my choices.

/home being it's own partition makes upgrade and switching distros easier, so long as the password, group and shadow files are backed up too. The others are to keep / from filling up and making me have to boot from a rescue disk.

These days the final decision seems to be more a matter of comfort and peace of mind rather than technical necessity.

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----- Reply message -----
From: "Stuart Johnston" <saj at thecommune.net>
Date: Sun, Feb 7, 2010 12:49
Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Separate /boot still a good idea?
To: "NTLUG Discussion List" <discuss at ntlug.org>

I am getting ready to do a new install of Ubuntu 9.10 and wondering if
it is still useful to keep /boot on a separate partition.  I'll be using
LVM for the rest of the disk.  This is a desktop with possible windows
multi-boot on a secondary disk.

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