Jerry Van Brimmer wrote:
Hi all,
I'm using 7.1. I'm sure it must be easy, but how do I convert my ext2 partition to Reiser, and should I? What's the benefits?
Thanks, Jerry
I changed to reiserfs for my 'root'-partition doing a clean install; I have /boot (ext2fs) and swap (swap), and / is the great rest of the HD. The benefit (and also the reason why) was / is that at a time I had a lot of HW trouble causing me dozens of reboots (without correct shutdown), and reiserfs can get along with this whereas e2fs does an annoying longish check - which in my case often broke and then I had to do the next reboot. I makes no sense to use reiser on /boot - see quote at the end, a post from last friday. How to make your partition a reiser partition during service?? I heared that there should be a way, my idea would be just to check the support database http://sdb.suse.de , select your language and enter the keyword (maybe 'reiser' ?), I think you can find the way there. Cheers .... Wolfi ================================== mailto:wolfi_z@web.de ======================================================= Martin Webster wrote:
Before you can resize reiserfs you need to increase the size of the underlying partition. See http://www.namesys.com/ for information.
You may want to consider using reiserfs with LVM. If you do this you can add any space freed up from Windows later; resizing can also be done on the fly.
I wouldn't recommend using reiserfs for /boot; much better as ext2. Anyway, whats the point having a /boot partition of one block using journaling? (I think there's a minimum size limit on reiserfs anyway).
There's some information on reiserfs at the SuSE Knowledge Portal: http://portal.suse.de/en/content.php?SEARCH&content/server/lvm1.html.