Partitioning 4GB with the Debian Installer

arne anka openmoko at ginguppin.de
Thu Aug 28 11:53:32 CEST 2008


> But why is ext3 not recommended for sd-card when compared to ext2?

i understood ist because of the additional wear caused by journalling.

> I played with debian on my sd card for over a week without any problems
> so far concerning the sd-card. I hope i must not backup my rootfs and
> reformat it to ext2. :)

well, ext3 is ext2+journal. should be sufficient to mount as ext2, i think.
not sure about u-boot, though.




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