On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 12:26, Andreas Juch<debian-u...@juch.cc> wrote: > Am Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:53:43 +0200 > schrieb Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de>: > >> On 2009-06-30 20:40 +0200, lee wrote: >> >> > Anyway, getting the new disks brings up the question which file >> > system to use. It seems you can convert ext3 to ext4 later, so I'm >> > thinking of using ext3 for now and maybe converting later. On the >> > first glance, there doesn't seem to be a disadvantage with doing it >> > this way. >> >> There is, existing files will not take advantage of the new features >> of ext4 like extents. Therefore, I would just go straight to ext4 >> for new filesystems. >> >> One caveat, though: grub(-legacy) cannot read ext4, you have to switch >> to grub2 (aka grub-pc) or use a separate ext2/3 filesystem for /boot. > > If the root filesystem to should be on ext4, there are (were?) two > additional steps necessary: Adding the ext4 module to the initramfs > (/etc/initramfs-tools/modules) and adding rootfstype=ext4 to the kernel > parameters.
With Debian .29 and .30 kernels it just works. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
