Until now I always used a non-journaled filesystem for my /boot-partitions.
But as it would make system restoring much easier after crashes I would prefer to use ext3 for my /boot-partition as well.
Is this possible, and before all, recommendable?

Chris

why is it more restorable?? Your /boot partition shouldn't even be mounted unless you're changing it. Nothing in there is used within the booted operating system, so fstab should have it set as not automatically mounted, and if it's rarely mounted there's clearly no need for a journaling filesystem.

interesting...

thanks for your prompt reply anyway.

Actually it's about my Laptop's Debian Lenny System. I mostly do not shutdown but only hibernate it, sometimes for weeks.
Usually after 6 to 8 weeks, the system is not restorable/bootable any more and crashes, so that I have to reboot it from scratch. All partitions with ext3-fs come back well, and even the system is booting well, but very often after a subsequent hibernate/restore, the system crashes again - until I restore initramfs.

Said that:
In MY fstab (created by debian installation procedure), the /boot-partition has no other specs than any other partition. So it is mounted always, and always accessible by me and any other process.

What should I do??

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Chris

Wow, that's very dismissive of you. You do realise those files can be changed..?

sorry, honestly, I do not understand you.

anyway, i just wanted to ask a simple question and explain its background, but i do not think that i'm in need of being flamed by a know-it-all. until now, the linux world was always an example for everybody helps each other to me, but obviously linuxquestions.org is not part of this world. sad enough!

I don't see that you were flamed - but it was pointed out that you can stop /boot from being auto-mounted and you don't need a journalling file system on that partition.

the mind boggles, huh? Whatever that actually means.