On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 08:01:08PM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 11/08/2018 à 22:50, David Christensen a écrit : > > > > 3. Do a fresh install of Debian onto the SSD. Partition manually, > > creating three primary partitions: /boot (1 GB), swap (1 GB), and root > > (10 GB). > > Mind to explain why should /boot be on a separate partition ?
It used to be the case that various bootloaders would not be able to boot from a partition larger than a certain size. If your root partition is encrypted, or uses an exotic filesystem, a separate /boot may be needed. A separate /boot may be used as part of a rescue booting system, so that you can fix a broken /. If none of those reasons apply, you can safely have a unified / and /boot. -dsr-
