Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 10:54:29 -0500 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Slices Message-ID: <17310.61109.611660.269501@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <e572718c0512130740u63a7c7encf913327611aaf03@mail.gmail.com> References: <200512130029.jBD0T11I020665@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <9CF863F9FF55D6301DA0C9B3@192.168.10.249> <20051213103621.GA1237@flame.pc> <200512131526.54619.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> <e572718c0512130740u63a7c7encf913327611aaf03@mail.gmail.com>
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Pietro Cerutti writes: > > There's no need for a boot partition; that's a Linux practice. > > You're right, but I don't feel it as a bad practice... mounting it > read-only could prevent from many problems, don't you think? Could, yes. In practice ... never had it happen to me. I've screwed up the boot code, but not in ways haveing a seperate partition would have stopped. Can't remember anyone else finding it useful either. I'm also curious as to whether having the boot code on a non-root filesystem even works. Robert Huff
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