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On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 01:58:19PM +1000, Adam Carter 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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How often are you writing to /boot anyways? Journalling is of little |
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benefit in that case, and imposes more wear+tear on SSD drives. Or is |
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it possible to turn off journaling for one partition under ext4? |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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