Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (464 mails)

[Sid Boyce <sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hans Witvliet wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 13:34 +0100, 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).
> > > 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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> probably a typo, 60MB sounds more realistic
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Was done late at night after a long tussle with trying to get JFS to 
boot, so I must have reckoned 30GB instead of 30MB for the journal. Such 
things happen as it's common to think disks in GB these days. It's no 
problem to correct it if needed.
Regards
Sid.
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