Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From:	Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-user] ext4/ext3 for /boot?
Date:	Mon, 07 Nov 2011 19:40:11
Message-Id:	`4EB833B6.508@wonkology.org`
In Reply to:	[gentoo-user] ext4/ext3 for /boot? by Jarry

1	Jarry writes:
2
3	> just out of curiosity: is it possible to use ext4/ext3
4	> filesystem even for separate /boot partition?
5
6	Yes. But a separate /boot partition is small, it is seldomly being
7	written to, it is often unmounted anyway, and a fsck is very fast on
8	such a small partition. So there is not much benefit of having a
9	journal. On the contrary, the journal takes some space that is wasted.
10	So I would just use ext2. But if you have the space, ext4 is fine.
11
12	Wonko