Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo from ext3 to ext4

[reQuiem23 <niklas.baumstark@gmail.com>]

Graham Murray wrote:
> 
> reQuiem23 <niklas.baumstark@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> yeah, but my /boot is still ext3 and grub IS actually loading the system,
>> it
>> even runs uvesafb. or is grub even incompatible with ext4
>> root-filesystems?
>> i thought this was entirely handled by the kernel.
> 
> Grub is not incompatible with ext4 root filesystems as long as you, as
> you do, have a separate /boot partition with a 'supported' format. It
> works fine here with ext2 /boot and ext4 / - but I converted this using
> tune2fs from etx3 rather than creating a new etx4 root (but I did create
> a new ext4 /home on a different drive)
> 
> 
> 

What you describe is pretty much my setup. I read that converting the FS
with tune2fs would not affect the storage of already existing files so i
thought it would be better to copy it all over. I also don't have another
64bit system with 2.6.28 kernel on my PC, so I tried it this way.

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