On Donnerstag, 23. August 2007, James wrote: > Florian Philipp <f.philipp <at> addcom.de> writes: > > You do not only need to mount it with notail, you need to write all files > > with notail in the first place. > > Hmm, > > I have several system where I use this for the fstab with reiser: > /dev/hda2 /boot reiserfs defaults 1 2 > > so the defaults include notial? > > > So ... > > 1. boot from CD > > 2. mount -o notail /dev/hda1 /mount/gentoo > > 3. tar czf /tmp/boot.tar.gz /mount/gentoo/* > > 4. rm -rf /mount/gentoo/* > > 5. tar xzf /tmp/boot.tar.gz -C /mount/gentoo/ > > I'm going to try this and even edit the fstab to reflect notail. > I did not see this anywhere in the Handbook section on grub, although > they do talk about notail in the fstab stuff.... > > > Or you switch to ext2 because you do not need a filesystem with journal > > on a partition that doesn't need to be bigger than 50MB. > > I like reiserfs, even for boot partitions. It is wonderful. > ext2 may be superior () but, I really, really like reiserfs > and use it on lots of boot partitions for gentoo systems. > I also use larger /boot partitions to keep multiple > kernels and related files. A few hundered megabytes does not > significantly hurt, when using a HD. If I go to 2 gig compact > flash cards, then I'll revisit these issues.
well, I love reiserfs too - but for /boot it is just... stupid. Even 15(!)mb is enough for several kernels - and since boot is only mounted to copy the new kernel onto it or through early boot, journaling is just a waste of space and time. About the notail - maybe grub has learned to deal with reiserfs even without notail ... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
