Best partition scheme to use

[rgmhtt]

You should always have a /boot partition. F14 is making this 500Mb, but TENDS to only use ~50Mb. This is for your own protection so that during a kernel update, you don't run out of disk space then end up with an unbootable system.

If you never run out of space in / and it never gets corrupted, you don't need a separate /boot partition...

This is a bit confusing - when selecting "use entire disk" during Fedora install, it doesn't propose a boot patition, even on a 8 GB drive. Why?

Did you specify to customize the partitions? If not it goes right past that part. Try

df -h

and see what your partitions are, or Applications -> System Tools -> Disk Utility to look at the partitions graphically.

[jayrock]

Checked df -h. Actually there is a 200M /boot partition, even though I selected "customize layout" and did not explicitly set this up.

[rgmhtt]

Checked df -h. Actually there is a 200M /boot partition, even though I selected "customize layout" and did not explicitly set this up.

Then you missed it.

/boot is NOT in the LVM partition along with swap and /. The default install for Fedora, as far back as I have used it is to make 2 physical partitions. First is /boot (F12 used 200M, F14 uses 500M) and an LVM partition. Then the LVM partition has a swap and / partition in it.

[jayrock]

Thanks rgmhtt, your right. I looked through my old notes and indeed, as you say, there is a /boot partition but outside LVM. The guide in the wiki discusses splitting the LVM part into a smaller LVM and a second partition to be mounted as /var/hda/files. The "non-LVM" parts should be left untouched.

So returning to ChrisVanBael, I guess you should actually have a /boot partition if you follow the guide in the wiki.