Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 23:12:22 +0100
From: Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>
To: Patrick McLean <pmclean@cs.ubishops.ca>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] clean-boot.pl version 0.1 - Simple utility to clean up /boot and /lib/modules
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On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 12:01:24PM -0500, Patrick McLean wrote:
> Willy Tarreau wrote:
> >One more reason to put kernels and modules into /boot. On my systems,
> >/lib/modules is a symlink to /boot
> 
> Not the best idea on distros that use a separate /boot partition that is 
> not mounted at boot by default (this is Gentoo's recommended setup).

It's not mounted just because usually there's nothing useful in it. If
you put useful things such as modules, then you'll mount it.

willy
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