Fedora 12 without ext3 /boot partition?

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Mon Sep 28 00:51:25 UTC 2009


On Sun, 2009-09-27 at 12:02 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:

> >> Will the new Fedora 12 have grub than can boot from ext4 partition so
> >> there is no need for separate ext3 /boot partition and "/" ext4 partition?
> 
> > On my Rawhide box the /boot and / partition are both ext4.
> 
> On mine /boot is ext2, and could be FAT. A journal on /boot is little other
> than a space waster.

I believe you forgot to read the original mail:

"so there is no need for separate ext3 /boot partition and "/" ext4
partition?"

that's a perfectly reasonable reason to ask.

As Valent said, this is already the case in F12, has been for a while
now.

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