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Re: Can LILO do this too?

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On Sun, 20 May 2012, Chick Tower wrote:

> On 2012-05-19, no.top.post@gmail.com <no.top.post@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Since grub has got the various FS-drivers: ext2, ext3, js*,
>> one can understand that it couldn't read an ext3 if the
>> driver was missing; but aren't ALL ext2 equal, independant
>> of the kernel-version that created them?
>> What about different inode sizes, can grub handle all?
>
> I don't know about your ext2 question, n.t.p., but it may be analogous
> to how Slackware changed how it creates an ext3 filesystem during
> installation.  I believe they changed the inode size, but I don't
> recall; it was in the changelog.  They said it was in preparation for
> using ext4, when it was new.  When I installed Slackware 13.0, and
> formatted my root partition in ext3, legacy grub could no longer
> recognize the filesystem, so I had to install lilo in Slackware's root
> partition and modify my menu.lst to just chainload Slackware.  So it's
> possible that an ext2 partition with a "non-standard" inode size would
> confound legacy grub.

But does Slackware allow one to define the inode size anymore?

I installed 12.2 on secondary computer a couple of weeks ago, and when I 
specified ext2, there was no further box to define the inode size. And 
since that seemed familiar, I think the same was the case with 12.0.

I have a relatively small /home partition, and since most of it would be 
text, I had been formatting it with smaller inodes, whereas a partition 
with larger files would be better off (I think) with larger inode size.

So I noticed the absence, when the option disappeared.  Either that, or 
I've forgotten some stage.

    Michael

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Can LILO do this too? no.top.post@gmail.com - 2012-05-19 14:23 +0000
  Re: Can LILO do this too? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2012-05-19 11:17 -0500
  Re: Can LILO do this too? Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2012-05-19 12:31 -0400
    Re: Can LILO do this too? SM <kasmra@ne-spamon.gmail.com> - 2012-05-19 17:41 +0000
      Re: Can LILO do this too? Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2012-05-19 14:36 -0400
        Re: Can LILO do this too? SM <kasmra@ne-spamon.gmail.com> - 2012-05-19 18:58 +0000
          Re: Can LILO do this too? Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2012-05-19 15:39 -0400
        Re: Can LILO do this too? John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2012-05-19 13:59 -0500
        Re: Can LILO do this too? "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@gmail.com> - 2012-05-19 14:59 -0400
      Re: Can LILO do this too? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2012-05-19 17:27 -0500
  Re: Can LILO do this too? Chick Tower <c.tower@deadspam.com> - 2012-05-20 18:57 +0000
    Re: Can LILO do this too? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2012-05-20 18:50 -0400
      Re: Can LILO do this too? Chick Tower <c.tower@deadspam.com> - 2012-05-21 21:53 +0000

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