Re: Futuer of grub/grub2 to F11

[Casey Dahlin <cdahlin redhat com>]

Lyos Gemini Norezel wrote:
> Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
> > On 12/29/2008 10:43 AM, Lyos Gemini Norezel wrote:
> > > Casey Dahlin wrote:
> > > > Lyos Gemini Norezel wrote:
> > > > I don't see why either of those should exist entirely in /boot. You 
> > > > are allowed further partitions. 
> > >
> > > Where else would they be better placed?
> > in /dev/sda2, also known as "hidden rescue partition".
> >
> > > I have no desire to clutter my disk with endless numbers of partitions, 
> > indeed. only one additional partition is enough. and guess what ? 
> > that's what numberless laptop manufacturers do in order to store a 
> > ghost-ed backup of the main partition
>
> Most laptops (ie., Win$hit boxen) don't need a /boot or even a swap 
> partition.
>
> If you have /dev/sda1 as a /boot partition, /dev/sda2 as a /rescue 
> partition, /dev/sda3 as a swap partition, /dev/sda4 becomes an 
> extended partition... and /dev/sda5 winds up as your /root partition.

And? The numbers are free. I can see not wanting to have lots of 
partitions to distinguish from, but this use case doesn't strike me as 
killer.

--CJD