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allen

Member

Registered: 2014-06-22

Posts: 36

Installation: Formatted to ext4 but mount indicates ext2?

I apologize if my question has already been asked/answered. Searching did not yield an answer...

When installing SliTaz 4.0 I did format the partition to ext4 but when I view mounts or run the mount command the file system is ext2. Curious why? Thank you, Allen

rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)

/dev/root on / type ext2 (rw,relatime,barrier=1,data=ordered)

devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,relatime,mode=600)

proc on /proc type proc (rw,relatime)

sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,relatime)

tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,relatime)

usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw,relatime)

fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw,relatime)

lexeii

Administrator

Registered: 2012-03-21

Posts: 1,853

Re: Installation: Formatted to ext4 but mount indicates ext2?

Hi allen,

Is this an answer? — http://forum.slitaz.org/topic/why-is-it-so-fast#post-26284

allen

Member

Registered: 2014-06-22

Posts: 36

Re: Installation: Formatted to ext4 but mount indicates ext2?

Thank you Aleksej for your reply. If the comment below (copied from the link you posted) is correct, curious why SliTaz installation provides ext3/ext4 format options? Most documentation online indicates ext4 is faster than ext2 as well as better suited for SSD's.

excerpt from forum link...

On top of that it being so small allows for the whole system (and applications, or most of them) to be cached or resident in memory. Also / is mounted as ext2 even if formatted ext3 or ext4 (ext3 would be slower, and i believe ext4 as well). Ubuntu became really fast once i offered it an ssd (similar and close enough to be all memory resident with disk log time and seek reduced to zero); slitaz is still faster though.