On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 06:53:14AM -0500, Dale wrote > Correct me if I'm wrong here, it used to be that grub, the original > version not the current bloated one, had to have ext2. At the time, > that was *the* file system. If I recall correctly, a ext4 file system > can be *read* the same as ext2. The difference is the journal. So, > when booting, grub etc is only reading /boot and it shouldn't matter if > it is ext2, ext3 or ext4. It's only when being written to that it > matters. Am I recalling that right?
Actually ext3 is straight ext2+journal. Ext4 can read ext2. It may be able to do small writes, but once it inserts its magic stuff, ext2 can't read it. BTW, I see that your system is inserting junk after periods. Binary view shows that where there should be 0x2E, it's 0x2E 0xA0 > Another one of those times where Linux provides a ton of options. :/ > > Dale > > :-) :-) And also after closing parentheses. Should be 0x29, but is 0x29 0xA0. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
