is it recommend to create /boot partition with ext2 filesystem?

[needee]

during installation of SUSE 10, at the partition creation stage/page,

WHY yast always suggest/selects "ext2" for /boot partition ?

is it recommend to create a /boot partition with ext2 filesystem ?

Regards
Needee

[devils casper]

its not necessary to create /boot partition unless you are installing Linux in LVM.

[needee]

Thanks for help
>its not necessary to create /boot partition unless you are installing Linux in LVM.
who is asking that either /boot partition should be created or not ?
Dear i am not asking that either one should create a /boot partition or not... I am asking (see the first/starter post)

[devils casper]

Dear i am not asking that either one should create a /boot partition or not... I am asking (see the first/starter post)

if you dont create boot partition then this question will not arise. there is no need to create one IMHO.

WHY yast always suggest/selects "ext2" for /boot partition ?

unlike ext2, ext3 doesn't support suspend feature. if /boot partition has ext3 filesystem, you have to pass noatime parameter to kernel for enabling suspend/hibernate. so, ext2 is preferred filesystem for /boot partition.

[needee]

Thanks Again for help/reply

Yes Infect I was just asking for the "Filesystem" issue

>unlike ext2, ext3 doesn't support suspend feature. if /boot partition has ext3 .....
I think same applies to reiserfs ? i.e unlike ext2, reiserfs too doesn't support suspend feature .. isn't ?

Regards

[devils casper]

yes. only ext2 supports suspend/hibernate.

[bigtomrodney]

yes. only ext2 supports suspend/hibernate.

Do you mean ext2 is the only filesystem that can be used as a hibernation partition, or that if the boot partition is another filesystem that suspend/hibernate won't work?

I'm running Ubuntu Feisty and all of my partitions are ext3. Suspend to Ram and Hibernate both work perfectly for me.

[devils casper]

Do you mean ext2 is the only filesystem that can be used as a hibernation partition, or that if the boot partition is another filesystem that suspend/hibernate won't work?

this is true for earlier kernel versions only. kernel 2.6.17 onwards supports hibernate/suspend on all filesystems. SuSe 10.2 recommends ext2 filesystem for /boot but SuSe 10.3 alpha installer doesn't default to ext2 now.