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Special Forums Hardware Filesystems, Disks and Memory Creating /boot partition & MBR concerns Post 302303463 by worthamtx on Thursday 2nd of April 2009 04:50:37 PM
Old 04-02-2009
Creating /boot partition & MBR concerns
I have 40GB HD with mepis8, swap, MBR and under flags word boot.
I also have a 160 GB external with a few Linux OS, no swaps, no extended etc. I am total Linux no MS
I would feel more secure by resizing that sda1 partition and creating a /boot partition with the MBR housed there. Is that a possibility and from a boot perspective would it be any more secure
Please advise and thank you
 

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all-swaps

all-swaps(7)						 Miscellaneous Information Manual					      all-swaps(7)

NAME

       all-swaps - event signalling that all swap partitions have been activated

SYNOPSIS

       all-swaps [ENV]...

DESCRIPTION

       The  all-swaps  event  is  generated  by the mountall(8) daemon after it has activated all swap partitions listed in fstab(5).  mountall(8)
       emits this event as an informational signal, services and tasks started or stopped by this event will do so in parallel with  other  activ-
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       When this event occurs, common filesystems such as /usr may not be mounted.

EXAMPLE

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