Saphirus Sage, mused, then expounded: > Beso wrote: > > 2009/1/26 Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@arcor.de>: > > > >> Bob Sanders wrote: > >> > >>> Morgan Wesström, mused, then expounded: > >>> > >>>>> I answered that initially. Grub does not support ext3 or ext4. > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>> # mount | grep boot > >>>> /dev/sda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw,noatime) > >>>> > >>>> GRUB working fine with ext3 here... > >>>> /Morgan > >>>> > >>>> > >>> For now. Grub supports ext2. It may or may not work properly > >>> with journaled file systems, depending upon phase of the moon, > >>> current tide level, etc. > >>> > >> It works 100% with ext3 because ext3 is compatible with ext2, both for read > >> as well as write operations. It's not dependant on tide or moon or the > >> super bowl. It works, all the time, 100% correctly, with no side effects, > >> no downsides and no bugs. > >> > >> > > and also with reiserfs v3. as i've said i've been using it with > > reiserfs for more than 3 > > years and haven't had an issue. saying that it only supports ext2 > > sounds a little > > strange. maybe Bob was trying to say that the official grub team > > officially support > > only ext2. this is different from saying that grub only supports ext2. > > > > > If you try hard enough, you could probably eventually get it to support > anything, but the only filesystem I've heard of grub supporting is ext2. > Granted, ext3 works, as we've pointed out and as I've checked the > configuration on one of my computers has confirmed. But, everything I've > heard suggests that grub doesn't officially support other file systems, > other than ext2. >
>From the Grub online manual - Support multiple filesystem types transparently, plus a useful explicit blocklist notation. The currently supported filesystem types are BSD FFS, DOS FAT16 and FAT32, Minix fs, Linux ext2fs, ReiserFS, JFS, XFS, and VSTa fs. I can give examples where is doesn't work with XFS. I haven't seen it fail with ext3, but I've not tested all configs. Bob --
