Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (581 mails)

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

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On Monday, 2008-12-01 at 16:03 +0100, Jiri Srain wrote:

> > > 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

Of course.

> > 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.

Perhaps we could fill an enhancement request so that the boot.rootfsck and 
boot.localfs ask the user wether it is convenient to run the fsck or we 
leave it for the next boot.

I think that a periodic fsck is not a bad thing, but sometimes it could be 
convenient to postpone.

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Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.
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