On Wednesday 03 Sep 2003 4:27 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Tuesday September 2 2003 11:16 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > Because Civileme told me too ;) If you don't know, > > > Civileme was a Mandrake employee who use to be a regular on > > > this list. His job was QA, and as part of that he did extensive > > > file system testing. He recommended XFS or ReiserFS, but > > > cautioned that /boot should be on an ext3 partition. I never > > > did understand exactly why tho, I just trusted his advice. > > > > I'd go one further. Based on what Civileme said, my /boot is > > ext2. I think I may have the original post, if it helps, but it > > would take a bit of digging. > > ext3 is ext2, just with a journal tacked on.
I presume that /boot is a pretty static partition, so doesn't need the journal, though can't see that it would harm it either. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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