Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1233 mails)

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

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On Saturday, 2008-11-29 at 18:43 -0000, peter nikolic wrote:

> On Saturday 29 November 2008, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> > On Saturday, 2008-11-29 at 14:45 -0000, peter nikolic wrote:
> > > Had to use  Reiserfs for the boot partition on the laptop here running
> > > XFS on /
> > >
> > > would not boot using XFS boot partition.
> >
> > Using reiser for the /boot partition is usually a mistake, because a lot
> > of space is used for the journal. For a small partition, about 100 MiB, it
> > is better to use plain ext2 (not 3).
>
> Yep i realise that but i have this thing about the EXT series file systems i
> have never had anything bot complete hassle from them so i would rather waste
> a little space and use a filesystem i know and trust  .

It is not a little space: it is about 30%.

It is so little a partition that you will not have problems with it being 
ext2. Actually, for /boot ext2 (or even ext3) is the type with less 
problems of all types.

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Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.
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