On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 02:47:02 -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Wed, Apr 24, 2002, mdevin (mdevin@ozemail.com.au) wrote: > > I am looking into changing over to reiserfs on all my partitions. I > > tried this once before about 1yr ago and everything was OK, but I > > remember that I left a small partition as ext2 for /boot. > > > > I can't remember the whole details for why I left /boot ext2 now, but > > it was something to do with reiserfs otherwise requiring a no-tails > > option and thus using more space ????? > > > > Can anyone enlighten me on what is recommended with respect to > > changing over to reiserfs for all partitions? I have been unable to > > find any mention of a particular need to leave one partition ext2 in > > the reiserfs FAQ or the namesys site. > > If you're dead-set on this, switch from LILO to GRUB. Why do you say this? I read somewhere that LILO works fine with reiserfs since (about) version 21.6. Can you explain why GRUB is needed? Not that I have anything against it, but I have only ever used LILO. > > That said, I'll echo comments here. Reiserfs is overkill (and wasteful) > for really small partitions. I tend to set my cutoff around 100-200 > MiB. /boot's typically 10-20 MiB. > > The problem is the reiserfs journal node, which is about 32 MiB, > invariant, itself. > > If you really want journaling, make /boot, /, and /tmp ext3fs. > I don't really need journalling for /boot, especially since I mount it read only anyway. So I guess I can leave it ext2. I did do this 1 yr ago when I last experimented with reiserfs. I just couldn't remember if it was solely due to a wasted space issue for such a small partition. Thanks for help. Mark.
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