From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RNV3D-0006DW-Nr for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2011 19:40:11 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 003D421C094; Mon, 7 Nov 2011 19:40:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx.virtyou.com (mx.virtyou.com [178.33.32.244]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4CE821C04F for ; Mon, 7 Nov 2011 19:38:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.2.43] (p5B275C01.dip.t-dialin.net [91.39.92.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx.virtyou.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5D751DC048 for ; Mon, 7 Nov 2011 20:31:36 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4EB833B6.508@wonkology.org> Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 20:38:30 +0100 From: Alex Schuster User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110929 Thunderbird/7.0.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ext4/ext3 for /boot? References: <4EB82372.7030206@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4EB82372.7030206@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d98c633e-2c89-479e-b86f-0d5e02a71cb1 X-Archives-Hash: b18adfd584cd91259f8bf22b50e7d448 Jarry writes: > just out of curiosity: is it possible to use ext4/ext3 > filesystem even for separate /boot partition? Yes. But a separate /boot partition is small, it is seldomly being written to, it is often unmounted anyway, and a fsck is very fast on such a small partition. So there is not much benefit of having a journal. On the contrary, the journal takes some space that is wasted. So I would just use ext2. But if you have the space, ext4 is fine. Wonko