From: adam@address.invalid   
      
   Aragorn wrote:   
   > On Friday 25 May 2012 17:07, Adam conveyed the following to   
   > alt.os.linux.mandriva...   
      
   >> Offhand, would you happen to know whether any of them prefer   
   >> ext3 or ext4 for their root partitions?  Or is ext4 already pretty   
   >> much standard already?   
   >   
   > Well, when it comes to the Linux kernel, there is no such thing as a   
   > standard filesystem - because it can be installed on ext2, ext3, ext4,   
   > reiserfs, XFS or JFS - but most distributions now do default to ext4.   
   > It is a robust and very fast filesystem.   
      
   Thanks!  I realize there's no absolute "standard", but I understand most   
   distros have a preference or recommendation.  I was thinking that I   
   could use mkfs to create the filesystem for each distro while using my   
   "production" distro, which would (I hope) eliminate the need to   
   re-create it during installation.   
      
   > Do however bear in mind that if you're going to use ext4 on the   
   > partition which holds the kernel images and the bootloader files, then   
   > you will need grub2, as grub-legacy can't handle ext4 yet.   
      
   Strange.  Under Mandriva 2010.0:   
      
   [adam@eris ~]$ df /   
   Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on   
   /dev/sda5              19G   11G  7.3G  60% /   
   [adam@eris ~]$ sudo grub --version   
   grub (GNU GRUB 0.97)   
   [adam@eris ~]$   
      
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