On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 09:24:26AM -0600, Stephen Lord wrote: > > It depends how far into the partition grub writes, but right > after the superblock is going to be the root inode. If you are > lucky it will have survived, if not everything in the filesystem > will have been moved into lost+found by repair. probably only 446 bytes since its most likly just the same first stage loader as goes in the MBR, but im sure it assumes it has a full 1K to play with in partitions since `they are always ext2' it looks like its time for another patch to make grub check and refuse to install on XFS partitions, i think it already checks filesystem type, and its already aware of XFS, it just needs to be taught not to stomp all over XFS. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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