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On Tuesday 12 April 2011 15:10:52 James wrote: |
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> Stroller <stroller <at> stellar.eclipse.co.uk> writes: |
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> > There's no need for extents on such a small partition, |
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> > nor journalling (because you write to /boot so |
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> > rarely, the likelihood of a power failure when you're |
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> > doing so is minuscule). |
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> Yea, sure, but that's not the point. I just wanted to |
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> use ext4 for everything. Not on this system, but often, |
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> my boot partition is very active, as I copy many kernels |
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> there for many different (arch)machines and different hardware |
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> (HD, SSD, CF, SD...) I try to make the many systems I admin |
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> as homogeneous as possible, hence the switch to ext4 |
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> for boot. |
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Nevertheless, if ext4 isn't working for you you should follow the advice you've |
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been given and format /boot as ext2. All my boot partitions are ext2, regardless |
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of which others are ext4 or reiserfs. |
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Rgds |
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Peter |
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