[ubuntu-uk] Some advice about /boot

[Alan Lord (News)]

On 10/03/11 09:51, Matthew Daubney wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm looking at quad booting my laptop (Win 7, Ubuntu (dev),
> debian(stable) and LFS) and wondered if it was possible to use a
> shared /boot partition across the 3 linux distros. The main reason for
> doing so would be so that everything is more tidy, but also to reduce
> wasted space!

I used to run with a separate /boot partition for years. It works fine. 
Just when you install the various Linux OSs you need to use the 
"advanced" partitioning option and tell it to use but not format /boot.

http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/11/30/build-your-own-pc-part-iii/ 
(Read some of the comments for a tad more too)

To be honest, i'm not sure if it gives that much of a win any more 
though, but I certainly don't think it's much of a problem either.

alord at lobsang:~$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6              15G  5.3G  8.5G  39% /
/dev/sda1             471M  121M  325M  28% /boot
/dev/sda8             250G  188G   63G  75% /home
alord at lobsang:~$

HTH

Al

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