Re: grub backport and ext4 support?

[Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>]

Am Sonntag, den 07.02.2010, 19:08 +0100 schrieb Nicolas KOWALSKI:
> Hello,
> 
> I have installed the linux-image-2.6.30 on my Lenny system to be able
> to use the ext4 filesystem. I converted my ext3 /home partition
> without problems, and it works perfectly, faster.
> 
> Would it be safe to also convert my ext3 root partition (no /boot
> here) to ext4 if I upgrade my grub installation to the one provided by
> the backports?

I am doing this on one laptop and it works perfectly. I guess you need
to add rootfstype=ext4 to the kernel command-line to make it boot
correctly.

Regards,
Julian
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