Markus Egg said the following on 02/06/2013 12:19 PM:
Datum: Wed, 06 Feb 2013 12:08:39 -0500 Von: Anton Aylward
An: opensuse@opensuse.org Betreff: Re: [opensuse] Problem with inodes on SuSE 12.1 and /var ? [...]
Maybe I'm confused here. Some of what you wrote indicates that you're creating a new news partition, some of it that you're not and are just converting /var to a ResiserFS.
Or are you creating a new partition with a ReiserFS for /var/spool/news *AND* converting /var itself to a ResiserFS?
I am only converting complete /var to ReiserFS and keep the same size for /var.
The things become very very simple. FORGET (g)parted. Its an irrelevance now. Its only relevant if you are altering partition sizes or creating a new partition. 1. Go into single user mod. 2. Delete below /var/spool/news 3. Back up /var 4. unmount /var 5. Run mkfs.resiserfs on the /var/partition 6. Change the /var entry in /etc/fstab 7. Remount /var 8. Restore /var 9. Go to multi user mode 10 Start news
I do not want to make some extra partition for /var/spool/news if that is possible (btw. that worked for SuSE 10.3 and ext3). So going back to ext3 for /var would be another options as I assume that SuSE 12.1 handles /var the same way as SuSE 10.3 with ext3(correct?).
I doubt it very much. You'd have the same problem about inodes vs data that you had with ext4.
Other possible problem: does gpart have the same options for ReiserFS as SuSE 12.1? Otherwise I will get into funny trouble...
FORGET gpart/parted. Its only relevant if you are altering partition size or creating a new partition.
In all of the above I'd strongly suggest reading the man pages and googling around to clarify anything you're not clear about BEFOREHAND.
Now you know why I'm experimenting with a single FS using BtrFS and nothing else: no /boot; no worries about merging / and /usr; no worries about inode/data ratios; no worries about barriers.
Yes but btrfs is still very experimental afaics.
From my POV ext4 is still experimental. So what? I'm an engineer; it works for me. I'm kicking it around and not having any problems with it and getting to understand it better than I did last year.
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