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On 2005-03-03 18:39, Jesse Guardiani <jesse@wingnet.net> wrote:
>> It's *best* to make more partitions (esp for /var) so that if
>> something goes out of control logging, or you just neglect your logs,
>> it doesn't go and fill up your only (ie / ) partition. Like most *nix
>> OS's, it can be as simple or as complicated as you want it to be.
>
> I want / + /boot. It's that simple.

Why?  The root file system is not written so often anyway.  Why would
you care about separating /boot from it?