on Wed, Apr 24, 2002, mdevin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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.
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 need to update my Partitioning faq/howto on this topic.
http://kmself.home.netcom.com/GNU/Linux/FAQs/partition.html
Peace.
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