On Thu, 18 Mar 2021 17:10:45 +0100 Laurent Bonnaud <l.bonn...@laposte.net> wrote:
> I did a test installation using debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso from > 2021-03-15 (Debian bullseye/11), chose the LVM option, and noticed > that once the system is installed and boots, the kernel complains > with this message: > > ext2 filesystem being mounted at /boot supports timestamps until > 2038 (0x7fffffff) > > This is not fatal, but is ugly and most people would prefer a system > without this message. > > The problem comes from the fact that the boot partition is created as > ext2 with 128 bytes inodes. How much memory does the computer have? On my FIT-PCs, using the same installer (but with firmware), I see that debian installer (d-i) goes to ext2 rather than ext4. They have 228Mi of physical memory. On my IBM R51, with 1.2Gi of physical memory, I do not see this; I get ext4. I do not see anything like the timestamps error message you showed above, and I don't know how to check the size of my inodes. But my work-around is to upgrade from ext2 to ext4, like so: tune2fs -O extent,huge_file,flex_bg,dir_nlink,extra_isize,has_journal\ ${dev} N.b.: Apparently on an upgrade like this, we can't do metadata_csum or 64bit. I don't know if it will solve your problem, but you are welcome to try it. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/