Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 17:04:58 +0100 From: Pietro Cerutti <pietro.cerutti@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Slices Message-ID: <e572718c0512130804u1cd192b9td1332f717ce88925@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <17310.61109.611660.269501@jerusalem.litteratus.org> 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> <17310.61109.611660.269501@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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On 12/13/05, Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> wrote: > > 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. Neither I... > I'm also curious as to whether having the boot code on a > non-root filesystem even works. > I too, but I won't be the one who will try it! > > Robert Huff > -- Pietro Cerutti <pietro.cerutti@gmail.com> Beansidhe - SwiSS Death / Thrash Metal <www.beansidhe.ch> Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming or what?"
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