[plug] Resize partitions

Cameron Patrick cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au
Sun Apr 18 17:45:45 WST 2004


Craig Ringer wrote:

| On Sun, 2004-04-18 at 17:02, John Breen wrote:
| 
| > You'd think by now I'd know not to make my /boot partition too small, but I 
| > have :)
| > 
| > Any suggestions?
| 
| If your root partition is the next partition on the disk, I'd just stop
| using the boot partition entirely. If your BIOS and bootloader are
| vaguely recent and your disk isn't too gigantic, you should have no
| problems at all.

There are other reasons to use a separate boot partition.  If your
root partition is XFS or something peculiar like that, and you're
using GRUB as a boot loader, you'll need an ext2 boot partition to
load the kernel from.

Cameron.




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