On 8 November 2011, at 08:37, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > ... >> The benefits of ext3/4 are irrelevant for /boot anyway - that >> filesystem is write-seldom, read ever so slightly more often. > > Really? I put my PC into power saving mode before going to bed each > evening. The PC needs to read /boot to return to normal operation.
But in this case you're only reading from it. The writes are still very seldom, so journalling &c is unneeded. I've never used sleep / hibernate on Linux, but if it requires /boot then mount it read-only, as suggested by Neil Bothwick for other reasons. Stroller.
