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ext2: mark as deprecated - kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree (git.kernel.org)

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Just use ext3 with journaling turned off.