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

[Chris Cox]

Stuart Johnston 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.
> 


Well I still like it for the reasons that it can be made small
and can be an ext2 filesystem (non-journaled).

So... if you partition (for reasons of isolation, performance and/or
security)... maybe a /boot is still a good idea.