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On Mon, 07 Nov 2011 19:29:06 +0100 |
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Jarry <mr.jarry@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> just out of curiosity: is it possible to use ext4/ext3 |
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> filesystem even for separate /boot partition? |
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Yes. |
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ext2/3/4 are all backwards compatible. ext4 does have a certain feature |
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(I forget what) that once used breaks this compatibility but you are |
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highly, highly unlikely to ever do that on /boot. |
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The benefits of ext3/4 are irrelevant for /boot anyway - that |
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filesystem is write-seldom, read ever so slightly more often. |
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> For /boot I'm still using ext2, but a friend of mine |
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> is just doing installation and asked me what filesystem |
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> he should use, so I told him not to complicate things |
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> and simply use ext4 for all. But now I'm not so sure if he |
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> is able to boot his new fresh gentoo-system at the end? |
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> Jarry |
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Alan McKinnnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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