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Re: Should /boot be ext2, instead of ext4?



On Sat, 2021-08-07 at 16:24 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hi Hideki!
> 
> > On Aug 7, 2021, at 4:12 PM, Hideki Yamane <henrich@iijmio-mail.jp>
> wrote:
> > 
> > I've found that d-i creates /boot as ext2 for guided partioning
> > with LVM. I think ext4 is better but is there any reason to do so?
> > (e.g. some architecture or bootloader cannot recognize ext4 for it)
> 
> It’s normally a bootloader compatibility issue but since we switched
> many architectures over to GRUB where possible, it might no longer be
> necessary to use ext2 for /boot.
> 
> I will have to go through the list of bootloaders currently in use
> and I’ll let you know.
[...]

This is bug #985463.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Absolutum obsoletum. (If it works, it's out of date.) - Stafford Beer

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