Re: ext3 or xfs for desktop laptop

["David R. Litwin" <presently42@gmail.com>]

On 11/06/06, David R. Litwin <presently42@gmail.com> wrote:

On 11/06/06, Marcelo Chiapparini < chiappa@oi.com.br> wrote:

On Sat, 2006-06-10 at 19:23 -0400, David R. Litwin wrote:

> Is it true that this has been fixed in GRUB 0.97? I think
> I read that some where.

I don't know. I use sarge, which use GRUB 0.95...

Hmm. Alright. I'll ask the list.

In the meanwhile, I now have a hd that looks thus: half is ext3, the other half ext2. Both use Debian. Can I turn the other half in to XFS,
take a little bit of that partition and turn it in to an ext2 /boot and still have GRUB work?

If that is not clear, I mean this:

|-----------------------------------------|---------------------------|-----|
|     ext2, / and boot           |   XFS, /               |/bo|  <--ext2
|                                         |                           |  ot|
|-----------------------------------------|---------------------------|-----|

I would install GRUB to the MBR, as usual. When booting in to ext2, I would use that. When booting in to XFS, I would boot in to /boot?

Or, should I just try it and see what happens? I'll still be able to boot in to ext2 no matter what, right?

Thanks much.

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