[NTLUG:Discuss] Separate /boot still a good idea?

[Eric Waguespack]

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Stuart Johnston <saj at thecommune.net> wrote:
>
> I am getting ready to do a new install of Ubuntu 9.10 and wondering if
> it is still useful to keep /boot on a separate partition.  I'll be using
> LVM for the rest of the disk.  This is a desktop with possible windows
> multi-boot on a secondary disk.
>
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you may get a lot of opinionated responses on this, but I haven't used
a separate /boot in years, and a separate swap partition isn't needed
either, so you can easily get away with a single partition.

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