On Wednesday 17 September 2003 1:46 pm, Victory wrote: > Some one please let me know the advantage/disadvantage > about grub/lilo ext2/ext3. > > Regards, > Victor.
1. GRUB contains its own little command shell, for passing in or editing commands at boot time. It can read from a configuration file. It supports many filesystems, currently BSD FFS, DOS FAT16 and FAT32, Minix fs, Linux ext2fs, ReiserFS, and VSTa fs; and blocklists for files that do not appear in filesystems, such as chainloaders. GRUB reads filesystems and kernel executables, rather than inflexibly restricting the user to disk geometry. Install and remove operating systems as needed. Boot bare kernels, passing in modules and parameters from the command line. GRUB will even download OS images over the network. GRUB does not need a /boot partition, just let it own the MBR. 2. ext3 is the journaled version of ext2. It's really just an extension to ext2. You can convert back and forth, I don't know why you would want to, but you can. With other journaling filesystems, such as ReiserFS or JFS, there is no compatibility with other filesystems, so once you choose it, it's not easy to make a change. There is no reason I can think of to not use a journaling filesystem, any of the major Linux ones are good. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Carla Schroder www.tuxcomputing.com this message brought to you by Libranet 2.8 and Kmail ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
