On Mon, 07 Nov 2011 19:29:06 +0100 Jarry <mr.ja...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > just out of curiosity: is it possible to use ext4/ext3 > filesystem even for separate /boot partition?
Yes. ext2/3/4 are all backwards compatible. ext4 does have a certain feature (I forget what) that once used breaks this compatibility but you are highly, highly unlikely to ever do that on /boot. The benefits of ext3/4 are irrelevant for /boot anyway - that filesystem is write-seldom, read ever so slightly more often. > For /boot I'm still using ext2, but a friend of mine > is just doing installation and asked me what filesystem > he should use, so I told him not to complicate things > and simply use ext4 for all. But now I'm not so sure if he > is able to boot his new fresh gentoo-system at the end? > > Jarry -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
