Bug#923855: Consider including ntfs in grubx64.efi

Alkis Georgopoulos alkisg at gmail.com
Wed Mar 6 09:26:36 GMT 2019


Package: grub2
Version: 2.02+dfsg1-12
Severity: wishlist

Including the ntfs module in grubx64.efi would allow secure boot users 
to load things from ntfs partitions.

For example, I could install grub-efi in a fat32 partition of a usb stick,
then extract the windows.iso contents to an ntfs partition in the same 
stick (they don't fit in fat32 as install.wim is over 4 GiB),
and easily create a multiboot stick, as grub would allow me to boot 
ubuntu.iso as well.

I.e. live USB tool creators could use that method in their tools.

Additionally, some Linux DVDs exceed 4 GiB, so people won't be able to 
store them in a fat32 partition, and ext4 handling is hard in Windows 
where some people will want to create the stick in.



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