I read somewhere that /boot shouldn't use ReiserFS. Is this still true? As far as stability: I used SuSE 6.4 running ReiserFS on the BBS system at work. It's been up for several months and both it and SuSE are rock stable. An interesting event happened after I completed the installation. There were two drives, and /home had the entire second HD. Thirty minutes after the install was completed the /home drive died. ReiserFS smoothly unmounted it. (I was logged in as root at the time, luckily) So, since the install wasn't up to design without /home, I punched the reset button to see how ReiserFS would react. Thirty seconds later I had loging in... no problems. I've used it here at home on my SuSE 7.0 since 7.0 came out... no problems. SuSE's logo could easily be the Rock of Gibralter. JLK On Saturday 06 January 2001 06:43, Nick Zentena wrote:
On January 6, 2001 04:56 am, MaD dUCK wrote:
hey all, reiserfs sounds awesome so i want it. but somehow i don't trust in it fully and i know that there are some partitions that cannot be reiserfs - /boot for instance.
take the following mount points:
/ /boot /usr /usr/local /var /tmp /home /opt
which one of them are safe to be reiserfs and which ones absolutely should not be?
They all can be reiserfs. Use the notail option in /etc/fstab. Even that isn't an issue with newer versions of reiserfs and lilo. At least so I hear. Every partition on this machine is reiserf except for the windows one.
also, is there a way to convert a partition to reiserfs once it is ext2fs and contains data?
Nope. At least not that I know.
Nick
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