Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1233 mails)

["Quentin Jackson" <Quentin.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 21:28 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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> On Saturday, 2008-11-29 at 18:43 -0000, peter nikolic wrote:
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> > 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  .
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> It is not a little space: it is about 30%.
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> 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.

For my two cents worth, I think I'll go with ext2 or ext3.  The only
thing that makes me consider using ext3 is I know how often this
filesystem get's problems and a journal will likely help that.  That
said, not much changes on a /boot partition and it's not hard to
rebuild.

Q
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> Cheers,
>         Carlos E. R.
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