From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LSx1x-0001lt-4U for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:19:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0FB62E0310; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:19:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2C30E0310 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:19:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38F8B641FE for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:19:46 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.147 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.147 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.452, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id jViH0N4CMp1h for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:19:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from kuber.nabble.com (kuber.nabble.com [216.139.236.158]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E5D8642CA for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:19:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from isper.nabble.com ([192.168.236.156]) by kuber.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LSx1n-0003fj-Mb for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:19:39 -0800 Message-ID: <21751560.post@talk.nabble.com> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:19:39 -0800 (PST) From: reQuiem23 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo from ext3 to ext4 In-Reply-To: <87hc3gson1.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Nabble-From: niklas.baumstark@gmail.com References: <21750949.post@talk.nabble.com> <49833037.5010706@free.fr> <21751136.post@talk.nabble.com> <87hc3gson1.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> X-Archives-Salt: eba78292-37df-4d47-967c-2b8a53883a4a X-Archives-Hash: 08f7fb85b860ffe9fe7df6d0b7b32358 Graham Murray wrote: > > reQuiem23 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. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Gentoo-from-ext3-to-ext4-tp21750949p21751560.html Sent from the gentoo-user mailing list archive at Nabble.com.