Re: Don't do that!

2013-04-24 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Mer 24 avril 2013 9:42, Ralf Mardorf a écrit : > On Wed, 2013-04-24 at 09:10 +0200, "Morel Bérenger" wrote: > >> Just, I've added the noatime on /boot, since there is really no use to >> write time at each access. To speed up things. > > *lol* > > > I've got reasons to use noatime for partition

Re: Don't do that!

2013-04-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-04-24 at 09:10 +0200, "Morel Bérenger" wrote: > Just, I've added the noatime on /boot, since there is really no use to > write time at each access. To speed up things. *lol* I've got reasons to use noatime for partitions, to speed up access, but it definitive won't speed up anything

Re: Don't do that!

2013-04-24 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Mar 23 avril 2013 19:00, Kelly Clowers a écrit : > On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Hans-J. Ullrich > wrote: > >> Today I learnt this: Do NOT use ext4 for the /boot partition, where >> your kernel resides. >> >> I did this on my EEEPC to speed up boot, and today I got at boot the >> error messa

Re: Don't do that!

2013-04-23 Thread Brad Alexander
That's really odd. I know that there used to be warnings about ext4 years ago, but I don't recall seeing them as far back as the squeeze release. On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > Am Dienstag, 23. April 2013 schrieb Brad Alexander: > > That is interesting. I have a simi

Re: Don't do that!

2013-04-23 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Dienstag, 23. April 2013 schrieb Brad Alexander: > That is interesting. I have a similar setup on my workstation: > > /dev/sda2 ext4964532 59380856156 7% /boot > > With the rest of the filesystems in an encrypted LVM container. I built > (rebuilt) this machine

Re: Don't do that!

2013-04-23 Thread Brad Alexander
That is interesting. I have a similar setup on my workstation: /dev/sda2 ext4964532 59380856156 7% /boot With the rest of the filesystems in an encrypted LVM container. I built (rebuilt) this machine a couple of years ago, and have never had an issue...To include

Re: Don't do that!

2013-04-23 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > Today I learnt this: Do NOT use ext4 for the /boot partition, where your > kernel resides. > > I did this on my EEEPC to speed up boot, and today I got at boot the error > message: initrd.img corrupt. My EEEPC has got an ssd inside and /usr