Re: grub backport and ext4 support?

[Nicolas KOWALSKI <niko@petole.demisel.net>]

On Sun, 21 Feb 2010, Martin Steigerwald wrote:

> Am Sonntag 07 Februar 2010 schrieb Nicolas KOWALSKI:
> > Hello,
>
> 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?
>
> You do not need updated grub, as long as /boot is on a different partition
> with Ext3 or something like that. rootfstype=ext4 is mandatory. I have
> Lenny grub + 2.6.32 selfbuilt kernel running with / on Ext4 on my
> workstation at work.

As I wrote my home server does not have a separate /boot partition, so I 
had to upgrade grub. It worked well, once the boot sectors were 
correctly installed.

--
Nicolas