how to increase existing partition ?

Keith Mastin kmastin-PzQIwG9Jn9VAFePFGvp55w at public.gmane.org
Thu Jan 22 00:30:33 UTC 2004


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> If it is a busy mail server, having a seperate dir may make sense.
> Depends how much mail you are handling and storing.  I hate seperate
> /boot.  What if I want to store 35MB of kernels and initrds?  Now where
> am I supposed to store them if /boot is full.  It's not useful in
> general (I do use them with software raid1 to get around boot loader
> limitations, where I make it 64MB or so).

You can leave a /boot patition unmounted and inaccessible to everyone but
root. This can't be done if it's just another dir in /.

Moving older kernels is not really a problem. /root is a good place to
store sensitive files

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