There is really no reason to convert a smallish partition to ext4. And there is at least one disadvantage. One issue is with a journaled filesystem if you crash with critical updates in the journal then grub won't be able to find the newest boot files (grub cannot replay the journal). This takes the some good timing, but I have seen it happen--mainly because some lazy developer decided it was easier to have automation always rebuild the initramfs just in case every night on 20k machines, and the same automation run did something else that caused a kernel crash on a few machines-leaving critical updates in the journal for the new initramram). A rescue boot + /boot mount and/or /boot fsck fixes this issue.
On Wed, Jul 1, 2026 at 3:24 AM Patrick Dupre via users <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > I still have a boot partition in ext2. > Can I convert it to ext4 without generating possible issues? > > Thank. > > =========================================================================== > Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: [email protected] > =========================================================================== > -- > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new
