Can /boot be ext3?

dmarien · Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2002 3:10 pm Post subject: Can /boot be ext3?

can the /boot partition (/dev/hda1 if the x86 instructions are followed) be an ext3 filesystem? Or does it have to be ext2?

thanks.
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pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

It can be ext3
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ElCondor · Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2002 3:15 pm Post subject:

actually it's a very good choice

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AlterEgo · Veteran Joined: 25 Apr 2002 Posts: 1619

Can be any linux filesystem. Just be sure that the filesystem is accessable at boot, i.e. compile the filesystem support you need into the kernel, and not as a module

dmarien · Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2002 3:20 pm Post subject: thanks all.

these forums are great.
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ElCondor · Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2002 3:22 pm Post subject:

fghellar · Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2002 3:49 pm Post subject: Re: Can /boot be ext3?

JeroenV · Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2002 9:07 pm Post subject: /boot ext3

I thought too that /boot could be any fs, however, I ran into some trouble with GRUB and /boot on ext3:

grub> root (hd0,0)
Error 15: file not found: stage1

I actually managed to get some garbled text-output from grub when I tried to list the directory (or something like that, I forgot the command).

or sth like that. It really was there!. After formatting in ext2 all worked fine?!
Who can explain this?

Thanx!
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delta407 · Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2002 9:56 pm Post subject: Re: /boot ext3

freshy98 · Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2002 5:53 am Post subject:

In the Installation Guide for x86 it's says in the FDISK part that Ext2/3 is recommended. I use Ext3 too, with no problem at all.

[edit]fine tuned my English :roll:

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Tiger · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 Apr 2002 Posts: 77

My /boot is also ext3 without a single problem so far.
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ralniv · Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2002 10:40 pm Post subject:

Tiger... I absolutely love your signature.

If I had half of your creativity, I'd have twice the creativity I have now :wink:

Oh, and to keep things on topic... I too have not experienced any issues whatsoever with /boot and / being ext3 partition types.

metalhedd · Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2002 10:50 pm Post subject:

I think i remember reading that long ago, somewhere far away... so I don't think its original. very funny though

dmason · n00b Joined: 13 Jul 2002 Posts: 14

I think I may know what the problem was when you have xfs, the permissions for the stage files in your /boot/grub directory are not correct for some reason, if you chmod it so that there is rwx permissions than you should be able to set it up in your boot directory. I had the same problem with using XFS I think, but I was just sick of using only ext2 as my filesystem, so I just looked at the permissions, changed them, and by magic, it worked. I hope that this could help.