Issues with the Live CD requirement for separate /boot

Kevin Fenzi kevin at scrye.com
Wed Jun 10 22:09:35 UTC 2009


On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:39:47 -0500
Matthew Woehlke <whatever> wrote:

> Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:55:36 -0500
> > Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> 
> Ahem. Please do not quote my e-mail address unobfuscated in message
> bodies.

Then perhaps you shouldn't post to a public mailing list? 
What possible advantage to me obfuscating your email address is there?

> Has something changed? I /know/ I created a custom partition layout
> for F10 (because I have / and /home, with no /boot *and no swap*),
> and I know I did it from the KDE Live spin (which I still have on
> USB, being the only easy way to get Fedora onto my Eee). I sure don't
> remember creating that layout after the fact, I want to say I
> installed that way straight off.

Yeah, it was a happy accident. Both / and /boot were ext3, and thus you
could have it install them both in /

On f11, / is ext4 and boot is ext3, so you can't combine them and have
it install in the right place. 

> >> If not... I'm going to have to do a 'yum upgrade' on my asus, which
> >> is going to be... painful.
> > 
> > Try preupgrade?
> 
> Actually... I doubt I have the space for it (only 700 M free) :-). 

:( 

> Besides, yum upgrade will let me keep a closer eye on what additional 
> dependencies get sucked in. (With less than 3 G of space for the OS,
> I care very much about keeping the rpm set as lean as possible. Even
> so far as giving up kcalc so I can keep the monstrous foomatic off
> the system.)

Yeah, then yum upgrade it is. ;( 

> >> (Btw, is ext4 considered "safe" for SSD's? I've so far been using
> >> ext2 to avoid the journaling...)
> > 
> > Yes, I think so. 
> 
> Hmm... well, not sure if I'll try it. I'd be a bit paranoid
> about /home getting nuked if I have to split / (though, in fairness,
> there is so little actually on the SSD that it would be trivial to
> back everything up first).

I have been using it here on a eee900a just fine. 
Of course no idea how it's affecting life of the SSD. 

I'm not too worried since the ssd is so old/slow that if it dies I can
justify replacing it. ;) 

kevin
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