Grub And Filesystems

Cosay · 2008-08-31 21:19:08

What file systems does Grub support? Right now, my /boot partition is ext3 but I was curious if I had any other options (aside from ext2)?

lucke · 2008-08-31 21:47:31

http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Features.html wrote:

The currently supported filesystem types are BSD FFS, DOS FAT16 and FAT32, Minix fs, Linux ext2fs, ReiserFS, JFS, XFS, and VSTa fs.

Cosay · 2008-09-01 00:30:03

Thanks Lucke. I wanted to try out XFS and I wanted to be sure that /boot would work if formatted with it.

Mr.Elendig · 2008-09-01 00:38:34

Keep your /boot on ext2 or ext3, if you got it on a seperate partion. Number 1 priority for /boot is stability, after all.

Cosay · 2008-09-01 03:27:17

I've just reinstalled with all my partitions as XFS. So far so good. Although it is probably pointless to mention it, it was incredible to see how much faster XFS could format my 650GB home partition than EXT3 did.

I think I might just ride with my system like this for a while and give XFS a nice long test.

nick · 2008-09-01 21:04:58

XFS is good, although rather slow deleting files with the default setup. It also can have issues recovering from hardware/power failure, just a heads up. I agree with Mr.Elendig though, if you have /boot on its own partition, ext2/3 is a much better choice.

Cosay · 2008-09-02 16:31:10

Thanks Nick but since the Arch install disk has support for XFS on it, I am going to give it a run.

One thing that I did do was add "noatime" to fstab for my XFS partitions. Are there any other mount settings that I should consider adding?

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