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[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 37 points 8 months ago

I hope Slackware 15 doesn't still recommend ext2 for being "fast and stable" like Slackware 14 did, so at least until the start of 2022.

[-] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 18 points 8 months ago

That reminds me that some howtos I've seen in the past recommended to use ext2 for a separate /boot partition.

[-] Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Now we use fat on the ESP. Ext2 for boot was pretty common in the past, journaling wasn’t really needed and it was going to work with whichever bootloader you used. At the time your other partitions might use who knows what and bootloader support for that filesystem wasn’t guaranteed.

[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

Depends how you read that. FAT32 is basically required for /boot/EFI but you still see /boot as separate old, stable filesystem on some setups. Usually it is just a bit easier/less hassle to do the whole thing up as FAT32 but you don’t have to.

[-] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 points 8 months ago

Perhaps for LILO compatibility? But that would make it a pretty old howto (10 years or more).

[-] LeFantome@programming.dev 1 points 8 months ago

Just use ext3 with journaling turned off.

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