ext4 for '/' was not allowed in fedora-11

Kevin J. Cummings cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
Sat Jun 13 15:15:53 UTC 2009


balu wrote:
> hi all,
> i installed fedora-11 today and when i wanted the '/' to be formatted as 'ext4', i got an alert msg that it is not allowed to format '/' as ext4.
> 
> is not 'ext4' the default file system in Leonidas?

Your "boot" partition cannot be ext4.  I think grub doesn't support it.
If you have a separate /boot partition, then / can be ext4 and /boot 
must be ext3 (or less).

> -balu
> 


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