On Monday 01 of December 2008 15:30:46 Sid Boyce wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Monday, 2008-12-01 at 10:07 +0100, Jiri Srain wrote:
On Saturday 29 of November 2008 21:40:31 Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Sunday, 2008-11-30 at 09:30 +1300, Quentin Jackson wrote:
Can I ask, what filesystems are supported, ext2, ext3, reiserfs, vfat? Anything else?
For the booting partition, it appears that only ext2/3 and reiserfs. JFS stopped being supported a few years ago, and now XFS.
Yes, exactly. For /boot partitoin only ext2 (recommended), ext3 and reiserfs are supported.
Careful: not only /boot partition, but also / partition when /boot directory is in the same partition as /. Ie, the booting partition.
Yes, I tend to mean what you describe when saying /boot partition, due to how many times I said that.
So, we are returning to the old situation, when a separate /boot partition is again needed.
Either, or having ext2/ext3/reiserfs root
-- Cheers, Carlos E. R.
Quoting an often repeated statement of an associate, "somebody's just having a laugh, ain't they?" - my laptop (ext3) just told me on a reboot that it has gone 71 days without a check and it will eventually boot up at some time in the not too distant future. I must have misread the intention or value of "tune2fs -c -1 /dev/sda1". A pretty ugly picture to present to anyone who urgently expected a boot up time to be reasonable. Imagine someone, especially your boss, having to stand leaning over you while you do nothing productive for between 20 minutes and half an hour or longer or however long a piece of string is supposed to be. I hope it can be seen from such instances why people are seeking refuge in XFS/JFS, ext3 is not real-world some of the time -- 65% check after 12-15 minutes of unproductive time.
I cannot really comment on ext2/ext3, however, this issue can be very easily solved by separate /boot partition, which is fsck-ed very quickly due to its size, and root/data on XFS/JFS/whatever. Jiri -- Regards, Jiri Srain YaST Team Leader --------------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX, s.r.o. e-mail: jsrain@suse.cz Lihovarska 1060/12 tel: +420 284 028 959 190 00 Praha 9 fax: +420 284 028 951 Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz