minimum "/" partition size

[Wenzhuo Zhang]

ruscook wrote:
>> Because it is unnecessary for PCs with LBA support. If it's unnecessary,
>> why bother a separate partition? But still you need keep the boot files
>> within the 137.4GiB range, I guess.
>>   
> This is not strictly true. A lot of distro's won't boot with /boot on an
> XFS or reiserfs file system (not sure about other journalled file
> systems).  Obviously boot is rarely written to so doesn't need a journal
> file system for itself, but if you keep /var or /tmp on / then /
> definitely benefits from a journal file system (I use XFS), therefore I
> need a small (about 120MB) ext2 /boot partition.
> 

Grub supports xfs and reiserfs. For desktop users, it's a good idea to
keep the partition scheme simple.