From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1FIAhz-0004Bf-9j for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 15:29:03 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FIAhx-0004AW-PA for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 15:29:01 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FIAhw-00049n-9q for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 15:29:01 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FIAhw-00049i-3I for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 15:29:00 -0500 Received: from [212.85.152.101] (helo=kotoba.storever.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FIAlW-00034o-Kp for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 15:32:42 -0500 Received: from kotoba.oasis.nexedi.com (kotoba.oasis.nexedi.com [212.85.152.101]) by kotoba.storever.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F4F93C006287 for ; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 22:28:26 +0100 (CET) Received: from [??1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kotoba.storever.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E8DA3C00622C for ; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 22:28:25 +0100 (CET) From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" Organization: enbug.org To: The development of GRUB 2 Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 20:28:59 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <44107EAC.5030300@yahoo.com> <200603111108.23859.okuji@enbug.org> <87mzfxujxi.fsf@xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <87mzfxujxi.fsf@xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200603112028.59600.okuji@enbug.org> X-Bogosity: No, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.118612, version=0.17.2 Subject: Re: mkfs command in grub X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 20:29:02 -0000 On Saturday 11 March 2006 14:37, Marco Gerards wrote: > Unfortunately the rationale behind this idea was not in the original > email. I know. > The main reason for this feature request was that swap space can be > shared between windows and GNU/Linux this way. So you can make a fat > filesystem when booting windows and a swap filesystem when booting > GNU/Linux. Although this is not something really important for us, I > do see the use of such feature. So? Why does a boot loader have to deal with that? Is a swap partition creation critical for booting? Why don't you just make a swap partition in the boot process of each operation system and activate it? I really don't see this as a task for a boot loader. Okuji