[clue] revisiting boot partition and LVM + grub

[David L. Willson]

Um, I meant RAID1 (mirror), not RAID0 (stripe with no redundancy). Ha. Er, oops...

Thanks Will. :-)

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David L. Willson
Trainer, Engineer, Enthusiast
RHCE Network+ A+ Linux+ LPIC-1 Ubuntu
Mobile 720-333-LANS(5267)

This is a good time for a r3volution.

----- Original Message -----
> So, my recommendation, held and taught lo these many long years,
> remains intact.
> 
> And this is it:
> 
> For /boot, create a fully normal 256MB partition at the head of your
> first disk type device. If your first disk type device isn't a
> hardware RAID0 volume, and even if it is, backup the /boot device's
> filesystem somewhere, regularly. In any case, backup the first few
> MB of your first disc type device somewhere, regularly.
> 
> Examples of commands you might use to do those backups:
> 
>     dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/net/nas/my/server-boot-part.dd
>     dd if=/dev/sda of=/net/nas/my/server-first-4MB.dd bs=4M count=1
> 
> Every boot is probably often enough, if you reboot when you change
> your kernel or initrd, which makes /etc/rc.local a fair place from
> which to call the job. If every boot is not often enough for you,
> drop the job in /etc/cron.monthly, instead.
> 
> --
> David L. Willson
> Trainer, Engineer, Enthusiast
> RHCE Network+ A+ Linux+ LPIC-1 Ubuntu
> Mobile 720-333-LANS(5267)
> 
> This is a good time for a r3volution.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > There's still one reason for a seperate /boot these days:
> > 
> > encrypted / parition. You need boot to be available and unencrypted
> > so
> > you can load an initrd to unlock your encrypted root partition. ;)
> > 
> > kevin
> > 
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