Hi,
> Another important advantage to partitions is that the existence
> of a boot partition isolates the firmware from changes in the
> filesystem used for the root.
can you explain this a bit more?
Concrete example: if you want to use btrfs on your root filesystem,
you must have a separate /boot partition, because no firmware or boot
loader (including grub) can yet mount btrfs.
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Chris Ball <cjb(a)laptop.org>