[ardour-users] OS Question

[Peter Lutek]

Mark Knecht wrote:

>On 11/4/05, Peter Lutek <plutek at infinity.net> wrote:
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>>7lb9oz Productions wrote:
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>>>Hello again, sorry to keep asking you specifically so
>>>many questions, but it appears that you are doing
>>>exactly what I have wanted to do and didnt think I
>>>could so I still have that slightly-jaw-dropped shock.
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>>>Can I ask why you have the /boot on a seperate
>>>partition?, Also what are the sizes of these
>>>partitions?  I am going to be using about 10 - 12 Gigs
>>>for this installation, so I am just curious.  Would 10
>>>be large enough for a typical OS and the swap space?
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>>separate /boot just seemed reasonable to help avoiding corruption since
>>it's so critical. the fedora installation defaults to that, and i saw no
>>good reason not to go that way.
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>Another optimization is to not mount the boot partition at boot time.
>Leave it unmounted unless you are adding a kernel or editing grub.conf
>for more safety:
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thanks, mark! i always wondered why we were mounting /boot for normal 
usage. your suggestion is a good one.


-p