Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (464 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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The Saturday 2008-02-23 at 20:36 -0000, Sid Boyce wrote:

> > > >  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).
> > >  I used 60G, no problem. the kernel supports reiserfs also, so that's no
> >
> >  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?
> >
> >  :-OO (very surprised)
> 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'm sorry, but I would consider a waste having a partition filled to only 
0.1% capacity.

Neither can I understand that you could stole 60 Gigabytes from a swap. 
You must have disks in the peta byte range!

Either that, or you are reporting the wrong units.


> 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.


But you miss the point: a 100 MB partition checks in seconds, regardles of 
the filesystem you use. Even the old ext2.

And I'm not telling you to use a 145G part as ext3.

- -- 
Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.

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