Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Saturday 2008-02-23 at 20:36 -0000, Sid Boyce wrote:
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
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?
:-OO (very surprised)
I don't miss it, it was just a solution to an immediate and pressing problem with booting from JFS and I stole it from swap.
I'm sorry, but I would consider a waste having a partition filled to only 0.1% capacity.
Neither can I understand that you could stole 60 Gigabytes from a swap. You must have disks in the peta byte range!
Either that, or you are reporting the wrong units.
# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdb1 401G 224G 178G 56% / udev 2.0G 180K 2.0G 1% /dev /dev/sdb2 56G 150M 56G 1% /boot /dev/sda1 211G 31G 170G 16% /ftp # free -g total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 3 3 0 0 0 0 -/+ buffers/cache: 3 0 Swap: 28 0 28 # o /etc/fstab /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_MAXTOR_STM35006_6QG0YKMR-part1 / jfs defaults 1 1 /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_MAXTOR_STM35006_6QG0YKMR-part2 /boot reiserfs defaults 0 0 /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_MAXTOR_STM35006_6QG0YKMR-part3 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_SAMSUNG_SP2514NS08BJ1LP604794-part1 /ftp ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_SAMSUNG_SP2514NS08BJ1LP604794-part2 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/sdc2 is a swap partition not used currently. I can alter this any time of course, but when it was done, I had rsync'd a failing IDE drive (ext3) over to a new SATA HD (/dev/sdb1) JFS and it refused to boot, so I just grabbed some space from swap to see if it would boot from a reiserfs partition. I'm not likely to run short of space before I need to replace another failing HD.
I have had solid lockups as recently as an hour ago (hardware I reckon) and JFS comes up smiling, whereas an inadvertent power down of the other box yesterday, 145G of ext3 caused a major headache.
But you miss the point: a 100 MB partition checks in seconds, regardles of the filesystem you use. Even the old ext2.
And I'm not telling you to use a 145G part as ext3.
The point I was trying to make here is that I've had a problem with fsck.ext3 taking a very long time to repair a partition on a relative's box when it suffered an accidental power down. If when the box is handed back and it subsequently suffers the same in his hands, he'll probably be stuck until I can get over there to fsck it myself - just may be I could do it over the phone. As an insurance against ext3 corruption or HD failing, I've rsync'd the 145G ext3 stuff over to a 80G spare reiserfs drive which will be left powered down as backup. As a total novice 80+ year old who had never even used a keyboard before, he's been using openSUSE 10.0 a his only OS shortly after it went GM and it's never missed a beat with reiserfs. The guy depends heavily on the box for email, web browsing, digital camera work, burning CD's and DVD's, skype, IM, word processing and spreadsheets amongst other stuff and he has a daughter who has recently given up on using her XP laptop and uses her own login on the openSUSE box. His grand daughter also uses it to play games and surf. The XP laptop, well XP really has been the real problem, so some time later I expect we'll install openSUSE on that also for a quiet life. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org