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sommio

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Registered: 2022-10-11

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I recently got grub-install: error: unknown filesystem, but everything

❯ sudo grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/efi --bootloader-id=archlinux
Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
grub-install: error: unknown filesystem.


❯ sudo lsblk -f
NAME   FSTYPE FSVER LABEL       UUID                                 FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS
sda                                                                                 
├─sda1 vfat   FAT32             A2C9-E29D                             485.4M     5% /efi
├─sda2 f2fs   1.14              eae10af8-6f9c-4ffe-955e-a537b82eae07   50.4G    87% /
├─sda3                                                                              
└─sda4 ntfs                     8A5016A5501697D1                                    
sdb                                                                                 
└─sdb1 ext4   1.0               1499d22f-4b49-4d90-be3b-a305ad442b58    1.7G    95% /HDD/HDD1
sdc                                                                                 
└─sdc1 vfat   FAT32 ARCH_202210 1CFE-750B                              13.5G     5% /run/media/sommio/ARCH_202210
zram0                                                                               [SWAP]
zram1                                                                   1.5G     0% /run/compressed-mount-point


❯ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 447.13 GiB, 480103981056 bytes, 937703088 sectors
Disk model: TOSHIBA-TR200   
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: A6CBD1DA-0E85-48CE-B8EA-3370AD58C04D

Device         Start       End   Sectors  Size Type
/dev/sda1       2048   1050623   1048576  512M EFI System
/dev/sda2    1050624 839911423 838860800  400G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda3  839911424 839944191     32768   16M Microsoft reserved
/dev/sda4  839944192 937701375  97757184 46.6G Microsoft basic data


Disk /dev/sdb: 465.76 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors
Disk model: WDC WD5000AAKX-6
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x4a1029c8

Device     Boot Start       End   Sectors   Size Id Type
/dev/sdb1        2048 976773167 976771120 465.8G 83 Linux


Disk /dev/zram0: 7.78 GiB, 8357150720 bytes, 2040320 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 4096 = 4096 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes


Disk /dev/zram1: 1.56 GiB, 1671430144 bytes, 408064 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 4096 = 4096 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes


Disk /dev/sdc: 14.32 GiB, 15376000000 bytes, 30031250 sectors
Disk model: Ultra USB 3.0   
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x00075467

Device     Boot Start      End  Sectors  Size Id Type
/dev/sdc1  *     2048 30031249 30029202 14.3G  c W95 FAT32 (LBA)

❯ cat /etc/fstab
# Static information about the filesystems.
# See fstab(5) for details.

# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# /dev/sda2
UUID=eae10af8-6f9c-4ffe-955e-a537b82eae07	/         	f2fs      	rw,relatime,lazytime,background_gc=on,discard,no_heap,inline_xattr,inline_data,inline_dentry,flush_merge,extent_cache,mode=adaptive,active_logs=6,alloc_mode=default,fsync_mode=posix	0 0

# /dev/sda1
UUID=A2C9-E29D      	/efi      	vfat      	rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro	0 2

# /dev/sdb1
UUID=1499d22f-4b49-4d90-be3b-a305ad442b58	/HDD/HDD1 	ext4      	rw,relatime	0 2

# tmpfs
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs rw,nodev,nosuid,size=16G 0 0

I've been using f2fs for almost a year now and in a recent update I ran into
"grub-install: error: unknown filesystem". I'm sure I'm using mkfs.f2fs without
the extra_attr flag enabled. Everything seems to be working fine and I can boot
ArchLinux normally.

Last edited by sommio (2022-10-11 08:54:14)

seth

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Re: I recently got grub-install: error: unknown filesystem, but everything

uname -a
pacman -Qs linux

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