If you use suspend / resume, you need different /boot -- coz then grub would take a long time to start up becoz suspend leaves the fs in an unclean state.
R.
On 21/06/05, Christopher Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I agree I use a /boot still it comes in handy as well when you get odd
problems with drives and such. Also if you have the space make your
/boot about 150 megs as for you will find out quickly that 64 megs fills
up when you stop using the arch standard kernel.
Terry Smith wrote:
> Jan de Groot wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 00:46 +0200, Michael Johnson wrote:
>>
>>> I have some questions about howto setup a (kinda) optimal partitioning
>>> for my 160GB (~153GB) harddrive
>>> I figured something like:
>>> C:\ 15GB winXP ntfs
>>> D:\ 110 GB data fat32
>>> /boot 64MB
>>> / 15GB
>>> /home 10GB
>>>
>>> My questions are as follows:
>>> * Do I have enough room for arch?
>>> * Should I have D as above or would it be better to have one 100GB ntfs
>>> partition and one 10-20GB fat32 partition for exchanging data?
>>>
>>> greatful for all advice/hints
>>>
>>> /michael
>>
>>
>>
>> You won't need the /boot, it can reside on / nowadays. Having a
>> separate /boot is from the days lilo couldn't boot across the 1024
>> cylinder boundary, or is a requirement when you use software RAID-0 or
>> RAID-5.
>>
>
> You don't have to use a seperate /boot partiion but it sure is handy
> if you run a dual (or higher) booting linux box, as I do. I use one
> true /boot partition with the other distros set up to have /boot as an
> embedded directory in /. That way vmlinuz and initrd files created
> during an install or kernel upgrade can be moved to the true /boot
> partition after the fact and lilo or grup updated by hand.
>
> Terry Smith
>
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