Re: [gentoo-user] ext4/ext3 for /boot?

[Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info>]

On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 19:35, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 18:15:06 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote:
>
>> > Me, I have always put ext2 on /boot.  I just don't see much need in
>> > anything fancy for something that is used so seldom plus everything is
>> > likely stored somewhere else anyway.  The kernel should be in the
>> > kernel source directory and a emerge of grub would restore everything
>> > else except the config.  Not much to lose there.
>
> One of the benefits of GRUB2 is that the information used to create the
> config file is in /etc. If /boot is toasted, you can recreate all you
> need with
>
> grub2-install
> grub2-mkconfig
> cd /usr/src/linux
> make install
>
>> Not to mention that /boot usually has a noauto option, so it's very
>> unlikely that a wayward prog can somehow bollix up the filesystem.
>
> Leaving /boot unmounted invites the inevitable error of forgetting to
> mount it before installing a new kernel. I prefer to mount it ro, that
> way its contents are available, protected from accidental overwriting and
> it shouts at you if you forget to remount it before installing a kernel
> or updating GRUB.
>

I have a script that does the menuconfig + diff .config + make +
install (including kernel copying to /boot, automagically mounting
/boot if needed), so I can get away with noauto ;-)

Oh, and it also auto-modifies grub.cfg for me :-D

Rgds,
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