On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 3:21 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you for your prompt reply. Using only one partition solved the problem. > The OS loads nicely. > However, is it possible to use a journaling file system like ext4 instead of > ext2? > I tried altering format-cf.sh and use mkfs.ext4 instead of mkfs.ext2 and > again, the grub> command prompt appears. > > The reason I prefer ext4 is to avoid inode reference problems after sudden > power-offs. Do you think that ext2 along with > the read-only mounting is enough?
That is the intent of a ro system. > If so, after I shrink the main ext2 partition, can I make an ext4 partition > in the remaining space? I need read-write access > to the second partition. Yes and you can possibly mount it at boot time, after making changes in the /etc/fstab. Set the fsck flag to 0 if you want the system to boot if it fs corruption is encountered on the ext4 partition. Please do not top post and trim your quotation. It makes the discussion a lot more readable. -- Arun Khan _______________________________________________ Voyage-linux mailing list [email protected] http://list.voyage.hk/mailman/listinfo/voyage-linux
