-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 04:01:10AM +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Hi, > > On 11/09/18 22:48, Matthew Crews wrote: > > My recommendation is to use a separate /boot partition and make it EXT2. > > Why not at least ext3? I don't baulk at ext4 btw for /boot -- I can > never understand why ext2 is recommended when ext4 gives no trouble and > has other advantages, even ext3 has journaling that ext2 does not.
FWIW I tend to use ext4 without journal. And since the questions have come up in this thread... - why no journal? It takes up space; it adds complexity. And it won't be there when you most need it anyway -- i.e. when GRUB tries to access it. But these are my two cent and mine alone. You can have 'em if you don't complain :-) The other tendency here "ext2 is very old, don't use it" -- hm. I think this is exaggerated. Ext2 is fine and stable for this use, and I don't see any downsides (yet). Perhaps the day file system code gets significant strengthening against malformed FS images, and *if* ext2 is left behind in that effort... but it seems we're not there yet. Cheers - -- t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAluYxPIACgkQBcgs9XrR2kZ4fACfdLFpkbOdDWQ6U1DUFkmJFNAX 0LQAniadg1mnCvt/bA7QgmJNa4O24OVr =735R -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----