Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (464 mails)

[Sid Boyce <sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Carlos E. R. wrote:
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> The Saturday 2008-02-23 at 11:51 -0000, Sid Boyce wrote:
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> > > Boot partition needs to be something like 20..100 Mb. Minimum for reiser
> > > is 100, a lot is "wasted" in the journal. Such a small partition 
> > > recovers
> > > very fast even with no journal, as ext2, with the plust that the kernel
> > > supports it internally (no modules needed in initrd).
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> > I used 60G, no problem. the kernel supports reiserfs also, so that's no
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> 60 Gigabytes of boot? For /boot? What for? The kernel and associated 
> files are about 30 MEGA bytes. What on earth do you use the extra 60 GB 
> for?
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> :-OO (very surprised)
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> - -- Cheers,
> Carlos E. R.

I don't miss it, it was just a solution to an immediate and pressing 
problem with booting from JFS and I stole it from swap. I have had solid 
lockups as recently as an hour ago (hardware I reckon) and JFS comes up 
smiling, whereas an inadvertent power down of the other box yesterday, 
145G of ext3 caused a major headache.
Regards
Sid.
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Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot
Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support 
Specialist, Cricket Coach
Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks

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