Does anyone reuse /boot or /var partitions ?

[Adam Williamson]

There's a proposed anaconda patch ATM which would disallow mounting an 
existing partition as /boot or /var (or any subdirectory of those 
except /var/www ) without reformatting it. i.e., you can't reuse an 
existing partition with those mountpoints.

I'm curious to know if anyone / many people do this, and if so, if 
there's a particularly good use case for it; if so, we might want to 
provide that feedback to the anaconda folks.

There are a few references to using shared /boot on Google, but not 
that many, and mostly for crazy multiboot configurations that we 
really don't want to be stuck dealing with. Does anyone know of a 
really sensible use case for this?

For the record, this is actually re-hooking up code that was used in 
oldUI - that is, F17 and earlier - but in oldUI it just produced a 
warning you had to click through; the current patch flat disallows it. 
The main driving force for this is 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1074358 , as it 
keeps turning out to be annoyingly tricky to make sure that only newly-
installed kernels have their initramfs regenerated when installing to a
shared /boot partition.
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