minimum "/" partition size

[James Gray]

On 22/06/2007, at 1:48 PM, Default User wrote:

> Thanks to Mr. Gray, Mr Richter, and Mr. Lockwood for the advice. Just
> one question, though. Why would a separate /boot partition be ext2
> (non-journaled) rather than ext3 (journaled). Wouldn't ext3 be more
> robust?

Felix answered this well, I'll just add that ext3 is just ext2 with a  
journal.  Unfortunately that journal occupies disk space too - so the  
total overhead for ext2 vs ext3 makes the journalled option a little  
less attractive on a partition so rarely written to.  Another to  
remember about /boot  - kernels are only getting bigger.  Back in ye  
olde days before the 2.0 linux kernel, you could away with a boot  
partition that was positively tiny by today's standards (ie, under  
10MB).  These days, to comfortably handle a running 2.6, plus a  
backup (previous) 2.6 PLUS a "rescue" kernel, you need upwards of  
100MB!  So setting a /boot partition between 100-200MB is a good idea  
for future-proofing your setup.

Let us know how your system works out :)

Cheers,

James
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