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Saphirus Sage, mused, then expounded: |
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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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> >> |
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> >>> Morgan Wesström, mused, then expounded: |
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> >>> |
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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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> >>>> |
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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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> > |
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> > |
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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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> |
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From the Grub online manual - |
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Support multiple filesystem types transparently, plus a useful explicit |
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blocklist notation. The currently supported filesystem types are BSD |
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FFS, DOS FAT16 and FAT32, Minix fs, Linux ext2fs, ReiserFS, JFS, XFS, |
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and VSTa fs. |
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I can give examples where is doesn't work with XFS. |
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I haven't seen it fail with ext3, but I've not tested all configs. |
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Bob |
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