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Beso wrote: |
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> 2009/1/26 Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>: |
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> |
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>> Bob Sanders wrote: |
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>>> Morgan Wesström, mused, then expounded: |
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>>>>> I answered that initially. Grub does not support ext3 or ext4. |
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>>>>> |
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>>>>> |
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>>>> # mount | grep boot |
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>>>> /dev/sda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw,noatime) |
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>>>> GRUB working fine with ext3 here... |
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>>>> /Morgan |
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>>>> |
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>>>> |
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>>> For now. Grub supports ext2. It may or may not work properly |
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>>> with journaled file systems, depending upon phase of the moon, |
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>>> current tide level, etc. |
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>>> |
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>> It works 100% with ext3 because ext3 is compatible with ext2, both for read |
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>> as well as write operations. It's not dependant on tide or moon or the |
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>> super bowl. It works, all the time, 100% correctly, with no side effects, |
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>> no downsides and no bugs. |
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>> |
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>> |
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> and also with reiserfs v3. as i've said i've been using it with |
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> reiserfs for more than 3 |
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> years and haven't had an issue. saying that it only supports ext2 |
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> sounds a little |
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> strange. maybe Bob was trying to say that the official grub team |
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> officially support |
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> only ext2. this is different from saying that grub only supports ext2. |
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If you try hard enough, you could probably eventually get it to support |
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anything, but the only filesystem I've heard of grub supporting is ext2. |
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Granted, ext3 works, as we've pointed out and as I've checked the |
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configuration on one of my computers has confirmed. But, everything I've |
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heard suggests that grub doesn't officially support other file systems, |
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other than ext2. |
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