[ILUG] Boot partition too small - need grub advice

[Josh Glover]

2008/6/17  <paul at clubi.ie>:

> Well, I guess your memory is better than mine. If I didn't mount /boot, I'd
> eventually forget and run the PMS..

It should be pretty obvious when you reboot the system and you don't
have the new kernel though, right? :)

How often do you do kernel updates? I think I've updated mine once in
the past two years or so, due to some remotely exploitable security
hole.

Having to think a bit before updating your kernel is not a bad thing, I think.

Finally, shouldn't your PMS complain when it cannot find /boot?
Gentoo's Portage does, IIRC.

> - If you're administering the machine on a professional basis, stuff
>  like this leaves surprises for the next admin

I learned this trick from a professional admin, leading me to suspect
that others do it as well.

> - Module insertion, oops decoding and other crash-diagnosis tools may
>  need access to object files for running kernel..

This is a good reason.

> Software is already a mine-field of bugs and strange behaviour, but if this
> dimly explored field of systems administration works you then have at it.

Again, I picked this up from somewhere else; I did not have the crazy
idea myself. So I know that some people are doing this, and I
understand pretty well how and when the systems I admin need to access
/boot.

> Just, please, mention stuff like this in any bug reports..

Fair enough.

If one is running a "magic" distro like RHEL or Ubuntu, I agree that
changing the default behaviour should not be undertaken lightly. But
if you maintain a whole network of machines, or are running a
metadistribution like Gentoo, you should feel free to make
optimisations that might not work for the 99.99% of the people that
Ubuntu targets, but confer some benefits to you.

-- 
Cheers,
Josh