Filesystem hierarchy standard - questions about /boot

Posted May 6, 2011 9:05 UTC (Fri) by anselm (subscriber, #2796)
In reply to: Filesystem hierarchy standard - questions about /boot by petegn
Parent article: Filesystem hierarchy standard 3.0 process begins

Nothing in the FHS says that /boot must be on its own partition. Under some circumstances this is unavoidable (e.g., with some LVM and/or encryption setups), and historically it used to be necessary on various machines due to BIOS limitations. However there is nothing wrong in principle with having /boot on the root file system along with /etc, /bin and so on, just as there is nothing wrong with having it on its own partition. The FHS makes no stipulation either way.