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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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>> # 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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> Grub 2.0 is supposed to have much more solid support. But it's not |
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> ready yet. |
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> So why actively try to break it, when it's known that it's not solid |
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> with journaled file systems and isn't going to be fixed? Ext4 is |
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> new, grub only needs a small partition - 128 MB or less. And it's |
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> only for booting the system. Why is there a need for all the overhead |
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> of a journaled file system for grub? |
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> |
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> Bob |
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> - |
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Bob, you're reading way too much into my response. I was merely |
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commenting on the obviously false statement that GRUB doesn't support |
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ext3. I have no opinion on the suitability of using ext3 (or ext4 for |
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that matter) on your boot partition. For all I know, ext3 and ext2 are |
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identical apart from the journal and GRUB probably even don't touch it |
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since it's only reading from the boot partition... |
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/Morgan |
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