Richard Fish wrote:
A. Khattri wrote:
On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, maxim wexler wrote:
I tried to mkreiserfs /dev/hda2, the boot partition,
My guess is that grub only
understands ext2 file-systems so can't work with your boot partition.
No, it can understand reiserfs and xfs filesystems just fine.
Actually, grub does have an issue with reiserfs. Reiserfs has a
space-saving feature for small files that will pack multiple small files
(or, I believe, the end of large files) into a single block. Grub makes
some assumptions about file system layout that prevent it from reading
any file (or part of file) that isn't first in the block.
It is possible to use reiserfs on your boot partition, but it must be
mounted with the notail option. If it's been mounted "tail" (the
default) you may have grub problems and will need to fix your fstab,
remount /boot, and touch every file in it. This will cause boot to take
up more space.
As already mentioned, using reiserfs on boot is a complete waste.
[snip: Richard's analysis of the problem, with which I find no fault]
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