Why Ext3 as default when installing from ISO?

Kevo · July 7, 2018, 8:49pm

I noticed after installing fresh for about the 5th time now that the ISO installer is selecting Ext3 as the filesystem. I thought Ext4 was the Debian default for a while now. Is there a reason that Ext3 is being selected in the Yunohost installer?

Aleks · July 7, 2018, 8:53pm

Hmmm, have you tried an official Debian ISO then ? Does it install ext4 ?

Our ISO should be just a customized iso built with some sort of “official script” from Debian (cdbuild) and I doubt that we have custom config to ue ext3 instead of ext4 :s …

Kevo · July 7, 2018, 9:01pm

The actual Debian installer uses Ext4. I’m doing a new install starting with the netinst ISO now.

ljf · July 16, 2018, 12:11pm

It seems we have ext3 by default indeed:

github.com

YunoHost/cd_build/blob/stretch/profiles/default.preseed#L34


d-i partman-lvm/device_remove_lvm boolean true
d-i partman-md/device_remove_md boolean true
d-i partman-auto/choose_recipe select atomic
d-i partman-lvm/device_remove_lvm_span boolean true
d-i partman-auto/purge_lvm_from_device boolean true
d-i partman-auto-lvm/new_vg_name string system
d-i partman-lvm/confirm boolean true
d-i partman-auto-lvm/guided_size string max
d-i partman-auto/expert_recipe string                         \
boot-root ::                                            \
        128 256 256 ext3                                \
                $primary{ }                             \
                $bootable{ }                            \
                method{ format } format{ }              \
                use_filesystem{ } filesystem{ ext3 }    \
                mountpoint{ /boot }                     \
        .                                               \
        512 1024 1024 linux-swap                        \
                $lvmok{ }                               \
                lv_name{ swap }                         \
                method{ swap } format{ }                \

kanhu · July 16, 2018, 5:52pm

Its ext3 with the latest 64 bit YunoHost image. Is there a downside of using ext3?