On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 10:58 PM Adam Carter <adamcart...@gmail.com> wrote: > > For a long time people recommended ext2 for /boot. The Gentoo wiki still does. Is there any compelling reason to use ext2 for /boot (on a system whose other filesystems are ext4) these days? AFAIK for systems that have /boot on an SSD, ext4 makes more sense due to discard support, and for non-SSD it doesn't matter either way. Have I missed something?
AFAIU, UEFI systems need a boot partition, and it has to be VFAT. Most motherboards support a "legacy mode" to boot using the MBR; but it will eventually go away, and good riddance; UEFI is so much easier and saner to use. Regards. -- Dr. Canek Peláez Valdés Profesor de Carrera Asociado C Departamento de Matemáticas Facultad de Ciencias Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
