/boot filesystem

[Tom H]

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Rashkae <ubuntu at tigershaunt.com> wrote:
> On 10-11-22 09:17 AM, Goh Lip wrote:
>>
>> o   ext3 = ext2 + journaling
>> o   /boot would NOT be mounted after boot-up
>
> I suppose there's merrit to the idea of not mounting /boot, but wherever
> I've seen a boot partition used, /boot is always included in the fstab
> for mounting.  Otherwise, you would need a whole level of scripting in
> update utilities, like dpkg, update-initramfs and update-grub for them
> to know they need to mount/unmount boot.

I've had some ex-colleagues who didn't believe in mounting "/boot"
(thankfully on their own boxes and not at work). I'm not sure how they
handled mounting "/boot" before kernel/initrd/grub updates/upgrades;
hopefully through scripting...