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From: Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] raid1 grub ext4
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 05:59:03
Message-Id: 5C243285-9BE6-4D7C-BA33-9861596E8B17@stellar.eclipse.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] raid1 grub ext4 by Mick
1 On 11/4/2011, at 9:18pm, Mick wrote:
2 >> ...
3 >> I used ext4 for / and /boot partitions.
4 >> (is this a problem? (sys-boot/grub-0.97-r10}
5 >
6 > James, if I'm not wrong (legacy) sys-boot/grub-0.97-r10 does not have drivers
7 > for ext4. Not sure if there's a patch for it, or if grub2 can boot from ext4.
8
9 Use ext2 for /boot, James.
10
11 There's no need for extents on such a small partition, nor journalling (because you write to /boot so rarely, the likelihood of a power failure when you're doing so is minuscule).
12
13 Stroller.

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[gentoo-user] Re: raid1 grub ext4 James <wireless@×××××××××××.com>