Scripting - write to HD support?

[Markus Laire]

On 10/5/06, Marco Gerards <address@hidden> wrote:
> I'm looking forwards to your ideas, questions, suggestions, criticism
> and bug reports. :-)

Will there be any support for writing data to HD? Even a simple
support for writing some data to HD would allow quite a lot of ideas
to be implemented in grub which would be impossible with read-only
access.

Full support for writing to filesystems is likely far too much to ask.

But what about a possibility to create a certain file in advance (e.g.
/boot/grub/mydata filled with e.g. 1MB of zeroes) and then an ability
to write to that file without changing the size of the file.

Alternative idea would be to create a partition (without any
filesystem) specifically for saving some data from grub, and then grub
would just give a read/write access to that partition as a single
block of data.

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Markus Laire