Florian Philipp wrote:
> Am Montag 30 Juli 2007 13:53 schrieb Dale:
>   
>> Florian Philipp wrote:
>>     
>>> Just as a side note: It is not very wise to choose reiserfs for /boot. We
>>> had a topic about it some time ago. On such a small partition the journal
>>> eats up a lot of space (32MB with default settings).
>>>       
>> I'm not sure the math is 100% correct but it has to be close.  I agree,
>> you should not use reiserfs for /boot, unless it is going to be a big
>> one.  lol
>>
>>     
>>> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
>>> /dev/hda1               195508     43440    152068      23%     /boot
>>>
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # du -sh /boot/
>>> 11M     /boot/
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] / #
>>>       
>> 43Mb according to df and only 11Mb according to du.  Looks like about
>> 32Mb or so.  See, learn from a idiot that did it.  ;-)
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> :-)  :-)  :-)
>>     
>
> I just looked into the man page of mkreiserfs: 
>
> default blocksize: 4096 byte
> default jounal size: 8193 blocks
>
> 4096 bytes/block * 8193 blocks / 1024^2 = 32.003906 MiB
>   

It's not 100% but pretty darn close.  ;-)  Like you said earlier, you
shouldn't use reiserfs for small partitions like /boot.

Signed,

The Idiot.  LOL

:-)  :-)

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