Getting rid of /boot
Tim
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Mon Dec 7 10:22:25 UTC 2009
On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 00:53 +1100, Roger wrote:
> Question: with /boot / and /home partitions, do /usr /etc /var and
> others all go into directories in /
> I've never found out how the partitioning and install systems handle
> this.
As far as accessing them is concerned, they're all directories inside /.
Now, they could be ordinary directories, or other disks/partitions
mounted onto directories. But they all apear like directories.
For simplicity's sake, you might use just directories in /. For
reliabilities sake, they may be mount points for different drives, with
different mounting options (read-only, etc.). Back in the earlier days
of non-gigabyte drives, using different drives per mount might have been
advantageous for sizing reasons, alone.
When creating the file structure, you'd make a root partition, and
create all the directories. If you were using partitions, then you'd
create them, mount them into /. Then you'd start putting files on.
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