For safety purposes, it's best to mount the /boot partition read-only (ro) once the installation is over. It has to be set in the /etc!jstab file for the particular partition. This won't increase performance in anyway, but it avoids overwriting or deletion of files in the /boot folder.

Every time the kernel or the boot loader has to be upgraded, it would have to be mounted as writable. Other than these tasks, it's rare that anything would be ever written into this partition.

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To remount this partition as writeable at any point, issue the following command in a terminal: There are another two mount options that can be applied to the xfs partitions to increase its performance nodimtime andlogbujs=8. nodiratime is similar to noatime, but for directories instead of files, andlogbujs is the number of log buffers that are held in memory.

The value for logbujs ranges from 2 to 8. In this case we are setting it to the maximum value. Given below are particular lines from the /etc(fstab file related to the !boot and /home partition respectively: