partitioning new installation

[Fraser Campbell]

James Knott wrote:

>>The other reason is to have a non LVM partition to load from in order to
>>have / on LVM.
>>
>>If you don't need either of those, you don't need /boot.
> 
> 
> What other partitions can't be on LVM?

All mount points can be on LVM except the one containing your kernel. 
Following typical distribution methods this means that you would have to 
make /boot a standalone non-LVM device  ... everything is fine for LVM.

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