On 2014-01-16 22:18, Fr David Ousley wrote:
On Thu, 16 Jan 2014 14:16:42 -0500, Felix Miata <> wrote:
If your /boot uses a journaling filesystem it is doing so for virtually no reason and wasting space in the process. Most of /boot's infrequent >accesses are only reading. Writing rarely happens except at new kernel installation or old kernel removal times. All my /boot partitions are >ext2.
Mine is ext4, which I guess is unnecessary, from what you say. ext4 is journalling, right?
Yes. I concur on the recommendation to use ext2 for /boot.
This suggests the best long-term solution (someone else suggested moving /boot to the root file system). Let me see if I've got it:
You can not do this is your "/" is on LVM or some raid types. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 12.3 x86_64 "Dartmouth" at Telcontar)