On 9/11/18, Felix Miata <mrma...@earthlink.net> wrote: > Andrew McGlashan composed on 2018-09-12 04:01 (UTC+1000): > >> Matthew Crews wrote: > >>> My recommendation is to use a separate /boot partition and make it EXT2. > >> Why not at least ext3? I don't baulk at ext4 btw for /boot -- I can >> never understand why ext2 is recommended when ext4 gives no trouble and >> has other advantages, even ext3 has journaling that ext2 does not. > > How often does /boot get written to, as much as 5 minutes per year? All my > /boot partitions are EXT2, (in part) /because/ it has no journaling.
Just out of curiosity - why would journaling be undesirable on a partition that is almost never written to? Thanks Lee
