On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 14:22 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: > > Does /dev/sda1 genuinely contain / and not for example /boot? > > > > This is on an Asus 900A. 4G SSD, / and /boot all on one partition, > formatted ext2, to prevent journalling overhead, with e2fsck set to > check the fs at every boot. An 8G card contains /home and /var.
FYI you can still create the filesystem as, e.g., ext4 with "-O ^has_journal" and still enjoy the performance benefits such as extents and delayed allocation without the (minor) overhead that journalling incurs. -a
