PogoPlug ALARM - Drive Usage

[moonman]

You CAN use ext3 with U-Boot. viewtopic.php?f=18&t=2580#p14557

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('moonman', 'Y')ou CAN use ext3 with U-Boot. viewtopic.php?f=18&t=2580#p14557

[moonman]

I don't think using flash would give you any advantages. Why would you want to have different partitions for all the folders? This isn't really a production grade server, and even then they use separate physical drives. If you want to be on the safe side you can separate /boot and / but i really havent had any problems after converting to ext3, i dont know if anything has changed since the guide was written though

[LavaChild]

Thanks for advice

I think, for simplicity, I will go with /boot ext2 and everything else ext4... I cannot suggest I have experience in either of those but having completed a lot of search it would seem that at the point of use the file system for /boot makes no difference and the install guide does suggest ext2, so I think that's best 'in case'. ext4 seems to be stable and modern so I think I'll go with that over, say, ext3.

I just need to decide whether I'll go for these as partitions on the (single) HDD or whether I should split /boot off to the flash. There is no *need* to have /boot on the flash as I can deal with the file system and size limits with a partition alone but it's still an idea I cannot stop toying with.

Why? I'm not sure, it does not really make any sense - I want to use a HDD for everything else for the advantages it brings, so why 'waste' such a large flash (say, 8 or 16GB) on /boot only.

Ah, how it feels to waste time on such trivial and meaningless decisions .

[moonman]

I am sorry, I am not understanding a little here ( and I think you are confused as well). /boot can be as small as 20 MB partition, just to have the kernel on there to boot up, then you would have everything else(root partition (i.e. /) on a partition that's ext3/4. This one can be 8 Gig as it will hold your operating system. The rest of the hard drive would be used for storage.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'du -h /boot
11M /boot')

[LavaChild]

Oh yes, I fully understand that - I tried to explain in my previous message why for this very reason my indecision was all over nothing... Because I originally planned to have /boot on flash and everything else on the HDD. This is obviously a waste, though, because then I'm wasting in my case an 8 or 16 GB flash drive just for (in your example) 20 MB /boot. I could of course move over the entire rootfs onto the flash as well (for sure it has enough space) but then this all seems silly when I've got a HDD sat there doing nothing.

So the simple solution (assuming I'm hell-bent on ext2 /boot and ext4 rootfs) would be to partition (say) 1 GB for /boot (ext2), 10 GB for roofs (ext4) and then have the rest partitioned ext4 for my storage (basically /home).

So it seems I've gone full circle - From wanting to use the flash for the sake of it to realising I really don't need to (especially since I have a larger, more suitable drive - the HDD - available). It is odd though, I'm still trying to justify to myself a reason (for which I cannot think of one at the moment) to justify using the flash Heh.

Thanks for the help!