On Tuesday 02 Sep 2003 4:37 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Tuesday September 2 2003 09:23 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote: > > Tom, > > > > What is the reason you make /boot ext3? I do everything reiserfs > > is this wrong? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Tony. > > Because Civileme told me too ;) If you don't know, Civileme > was a Mandrake employee who use to be a regular on this list. His > job was QA, and as part of that he did extensive file system > testing. He recommended XFS or ReiserFS, but cautioned that /boot > should be on an ext3 partition. I never did understand exactly why > tho, I just trusted his advice.
I'd go one further. Based on what Civileme said, my /boot is ext2. I think I may have the original post, if it helps, but it would take a bit of digging. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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