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http://askubuntu.com/questions/468466/why-this-occurs-error-diskfilter-writes-are-not-supported " It's a BUG! This is a bug that occurs in the most recent version of Ubuntu Server (Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS), when you create the boot partition (or the root partition, when the boot partition doesn't exists) inside a LVM or a RAID partition. You can get more info about this bug in Ubuntu Launchpad: Bug #1274320 "Error: diskfilter writes are not supported" . Why does this bug occur? When the system is booting, GRUB reads ( load_env ) data in /boot/grub/grubenv . This file is called GRUB Environment Block . From the GRUB Manual: It is often useful to be able to remember a small amount of information from one boot to the next. [...] At boot time, the load_env command (see load_env) loads environment variables from it, and the save_env (see save_env) command saves environment variables to it. ...

eOS, despite having a nice interface, started to annoy me. Little things that I take for granted, like not seeing the progress of a downloading file (which admittedly might just be a midori thing and not eOS generally), not being able to plug in my scanner and have it work (even though it was detected and correctly identified by simplescan!) and not being able to pin custom app icons to the dock or app menu - even though I was getting my hands dirty making .desktop files in the command line and everything! The music player was doing my head in as well. Duplicate songs might have come from my rsync experiments, but they were a ball-ache to clear up. And I couldn't install Steam via the package manager either, I had to use the same debian script I used for #!. There was some other stuff as well, to do with the file manager. It was death by a thousand cuts really. I'm sure eOS will be really good in a couple of years, but for the time-being I think I need something more fully-...