On Tuesday 12 April 2011 15:10:52 James wrote: > Stroller <stroller <at> stellar.eclipse.co.uk> writes:
> > There's no need for extents on such a small partition, > > nor journalling (because you write to /boot so > > rarely, the likelihood of a power failure when you're > > doing so is minuscule). > > Yea, sure, but that's not the point. I just wanted to > use ext4 for everything. Not on this system, but often, > my boot partition is very active, as I copy many kernels > there for many different (arch)machines and different hardware > (HD, SSD, CF, SD...) I try to make the many systems I admin > as homogeneous as possible, hence the switch to ext4 > for boot. Nevertheless, if ext4 isn't working for you you should follow the advice you've been given and format /boot as ext2. All my boot partitions are ext2, regardless of which others are ext4 or reiserfs. -- Rgds Peter
