[Voyage-linux] Voyage 0.9 installation problem with Grub

[Arun Khan]

On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 3:21 PM,  <kmpirkos at ece.upatras.gr> wrote:
> Thank you for your prompt reply. Using only one partition solved the problem. The OS loads nicely.
> However, is it possible to use a journaling file system like ext4 instead of ext2?
> I tried altering format-cf.sh and use mkfs.ext4 instead of mkfs.ext2 and again, the grub> command prompt appears.
>
> The reason I prefer ext4 is to avoid inode reference problems after sudden power-offs. Do you think that ext2 along with
> the read-only mounting is enough?

That is the intent of a ro system.

> If so, after I shrink the main ext2 partition, can I make an ext4 partition in the remaining space? I need read-write access
> to the second partition.

Yes and you can possibly mount it at boot time, after making changes
in the /etc/fstab.    Set the fsck flag to 0 if you want the system to
boot if it fs corruption is encountered on the ext4 partition.

Please do not top post and trim your quotation.   It makes the
discussion a lot more readable.

-- Arun Khan