On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 7:59 PM, Paul W. Frields <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stickster@gmail.com">stickster@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Now Fedora by default installs a 500 MB /boot, which should be<br>
sufficient for the foreseeable future. (Admittedly in free software,<br>
things change rapidly so the horizon of "foreseeable" isn't as long as<br>
you might find in crustier realms.) ;-)<br></blockquote></div><br>I believe a /boot partition became necessary in F11 because (I adopted Fedora with the 11 version):<br><br>Since Fedora uses LVM by default and GRUB doesn't
support that either, in practice you will need to keep using the Ext3
filesystem for the /boot partition. This is the recommended setup and
is how Anaconda sets it up by default. To prevent boot issues, Anaconda
will not let you format a /boot partition with Ext4.
<p>(...)</p><p>Note that Rawhide (and hence Fedora 12) will support Ext4 on the boot partition.
</p><a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ext4_in_Fedora_11#Does_GRUB_support_Ext4.3F">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ext4_in_Fedora_11#Does_GRUB_support_Ext4.3F</a><br><br>===================<br><br>Isn't it now possible to revert to not using a /boot partition and having the full / space for installation?<br>