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On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 10:58 PM Adam Carter <adamcarter3@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> For a long time people recommended ext2 for /boot. The Gentoo wiki still |
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does. Is there any compelling reason to use ext2 for /boot (on a system |
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whose other filesystems are ext4) these days? AFAIK for systems that have |
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/boot on an SSD, ext4 makes more sense due to discard support, and for |
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non-SSD it doesn't matter either way. Have I missed something? |
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AFAIU, UEFI systems need a boot partition, and it has to be VFAT. Most |
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motherboards support a "legacy mode" to boot using the MBR; but it will |
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eventually go away, and good riddance; UEFI is so much easier and saner to |
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use. |
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Regards. |
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Dr. Canek Peláez Valdés |
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Profesor de Carrera Asociado C |
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Departamento de Matemáticas |
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Facultad de Ciencias |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
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