Comments on: Thinking about ext4 http://gibbonsr.net/2008/12/thinking-about-ext4/ A Placeholder For My Ramblings Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:36:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: insanity5902 [Member] http://gibbonsr.net/2008/12/thinking-about-ext4/comment-page-1/#comment-42 insanity5902 [Member] Sun, 08 Mar 2009 17:15:00 +0000 http://wp.gibbonsr.net/?p=12#comment-42 I use ext2 for my /boot b/c it is easily readable by all boot cd's, etc. It is also so small, there is no need for advanced file systems. All it is really doing is a loading a few files totaling no more the a few MB. My kernel image is 2.8MB and the information for grub, including my splash image is under 2MB.<br /> <br /> As for /home as ext3. I was still leery of ext4's stability. So leaving /home as ext3 allows for a stable filesystem holding all my documents. Then I use ext4 on / , /var, and /usr/portage.<br /> <br /> Since this post though I have been happy with ext4 and went ahead and moved my /home to it also. I've been very happy with ext4. Can't wait for btrfs to come out :) I use ext2 for my /boot b/c it is easily readable by all boot cd’s, etc. It is also so small, there is no need for advanced file systems. All it is really doing is a loading a few files totaling no more the a few MB. My kernel image is 2.8MB and the information for grub, including my splash image is under 2MB.

As for /home as ext3. I was still leery of ext4′s stability. So leaving /home as ext3 allows for a stable filesystem holding all my documents. Then I use ext4 on / , /var, and /usr/portage.

Since this post though I have been happy with ext4 and went ahead and moved my /home to it also. I’ve been very happy with ext4. Can’t wait for btrfs to come out :)

]]> By: RM [Visitor] http://gibbonsr.net/2008/12/thinking-about-ext4/comment-page-1/#comment-41 RM [Visitor] Sun, 08 Mar 2009 15:37:00 +0000 http://wp.gibbonsr.net/?p=12#comment-41 Why "/boot as ext2, /home as ext3 and everything else as ext4" ??<br /> It not better to format everything as ext4 ? Why “/boot as ext2, /home as ext3 and everything else as ext4″ ??
It not better to format everything as ext4 ?

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