[LBo] Distros...

[Randy Kramer]

On Monday 07 May 2007 11:45 pm, Jason Armstrong wrote:
> This is subject to personal taste, but not what I would recommend.  You can 
get
> by with just /, but your system will be far more scalable and secure, and 
disaster
> recovery will be vastly simpler, if you make use of multiple 
partititions.  /boot
> doesn't need to be particularly big, just enough to comfortably hold your 
working
> kernels and config files, 32MB should be sufficient.

I can see the advantages of making separate partitions for things 
like /var, /usr/local, /<mydata>, and maybe a few others, but what are the 
advantages of making a separate /boot?  (Assuming the 1024 limit on whatever 
is no longer an issue--was that the original reason for a separate /boot?)

Randy Kramer