On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 1:49 PM Michael Stone <mst...@debian.org> wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 02:18:46AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > >I want my boot partitions accessible no matter what I > >boot, even if it means booting using a Windows 98 floppy disk, attaching it > >via > >USB to a Mac, or booting an ancient PC running a pre-2.4 kernel. EXT2 has > >maximum backward compatibility. > > There's no problem with having a personal quirk, as long as other people > understand it's not good general advice that they should follow.
I've been using EXT2 in /boot since I saw the recommendation in the early days of EXT3. I haven't seem anyone suggest that in quite a while, so I guess it's become a 'personal quirk' now. But Felix talks about several boot partitions. I don't know, but wouldn't >1 /boots confuse grub? -- Glenn English