Re: Migrating a pismo to a journalling filesystem

[Andrei Verovski <andrei.verovski@parks.lv>]

>your probably better off leaving your root partition small, and ext2
>(so you can boot, yaboot doesn't support anything but ext2 right
>now. (yes i know about the unofficial reiser patch, it needs testing
>first)).  then if you create the rest of your partitions strategecly
>you can backup say /var to /home, mkxfs /dev/var, recopy /var back,
>then do the same with /usr and such.  
>

The current yaboot with reiserfs patch (avavilable on SuSE ftp) does NOT 
supports yet separate /boot ext2 and root reiserfs partitions (it throws 
in open formware). You have to make a single Linux partition or wait 
until yaboot will be fixed.





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