on Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 01:54:28AM -0700, Lucas Albers (albersl@cs.montana.edu) wrote: > > See generally my guide previously posted. > > > > Use LVM. > > > this guide: > http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/partition.html > > Mentions that you should not use reiserfs as your boot partition? Note the date on that article. It's about 2.5 years old, and things have changed some. I should note on the document itself that there's an oupdated version elsewhere. > Can you extrapolate, I've used reiserfs as my boot partiton with no > problems, and would be interested in what you have encountered: Frankly, I don't recall at present. At the time, IIRC, rieserfs needed a special command or option to leave files in fixed locations or directly addressable. This may have been fixed since. The caution almost certainly doesn't hold. However, reiserfs (as other journaled filesystems) *does* require storage space for the journal file. Which on a smallish root filesystem takes up a significant amount of space (32 MiB, IIRC, for reiserfs). Reiser uses a fixed size journal file, while ext3's is either more proportional to the partition size or is just smaller overall. > "The only significant consideration here was that I'm running Reiserfs on > most partitions. There are some issues reading a Reiserfs partition on > boot from LILO, so I have one ext2fs partition, mounted read-only, as > /boot." > > In completelly unrelated comments, it seems a lot of people have good > documentation spread all over the net, wouldn't it be nice if more of this > was consolidated on the debian site? Well, some of it's worked into standard stuff. My partitioning notes are also included, in part, in the Linux Partitioning HOWTO. My chroot install notes were adapted for use in the Debian Installation Manual. And there's Google. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Support the EFF, they support you: http://www.eff.org/
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