On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 08:52:23AM +0100, Albin Otterhäll wrote:
On 02/27/2016 06:16 PM, Adam Wilson wrote:[---] use ext2 for /boot [---]Why use Ext2 and not Ext 3 or 4 for /boot?
I believe the reasoning is to keep /boot as simple and as robust as possible. ext3 and ext4 are, while mostly compatible with ext2, not as well supported. There are third-party drivers, for example, that don't know about the journal of ext3 or the extents of ext4. And besides, these take up unnecessary space on a file system which is only written to, say, once every few months.
Ext2 provides a balance between features (i.e. being sufficiently UNIX-y (which FAT isn't)), and simplicity.
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