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On 9 April 2012, at 13:04, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: |
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>>> This means ext4 mandatory if you want to use it, and this (usually) |
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>>> means GRUB2, which is still considered beta. |
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> … |
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> Interesting. Do you have extents enabled in the filesystem? Mine does: |
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> # tune2fs -l /dev/sda4 | grep features |
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> Filesystem features: has_journal ext_attr resize_inode dir_index |
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> filetype needs_recovery extent sparse_super large_file uninit_bg |
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# df -Th |
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Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on |
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rootfs rootfs 228G 5.8G 211G 3% / |
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/dev/root ext4 228G 5.8G 211G 3% / |
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devtmpfs devtmpfs 875M 212K 875M 1% /dev |
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rc-svcdir tmpfs 1.0M 60K 964K 6% /lib64/rc/init.d |
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cgroup_root tmpfs 10M 0 10M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup |
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shm tmpfs 876M 0 876M 0% /dev/shm |
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# tune2fs -l /dev/root | grep extent |
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Filesystem features: has_journal ext_attr resize_inode dir_index filetype needs_recovery extent flex_bg sparse_super large_file huge_file uninit_bg dir_nlink |
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> I was under the impression that GRUB legacy could not read ext4 |
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> filesystems with extents enabled; that was the primary reason I |
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> migrated to GRUB2. I believe there is a patch for GRUB legacy which |
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> adds ext4+extents support, but I don't think Gentoo applies it. |
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No idea where it comes from, but you can see for yourself now you know to look. |
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Stroller. |
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