On Saturday 05 December 2009 21:24:01 Frans de Boer wrote:
On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 01:50 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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On Saturday, 2009-12-05 at 16:18 -0800, Linda Walsh wrote:
I have tried to use 11.2 installed on a ext4 partition.
--- Might try 'xfs'. ??
Xfs on / requires a separate /boot partition formatted as ext2. You might get it working without this, but it is not guaranteed.
I use ext3 for / and xfs for /home.
Still, nobody has experienced the same?
Also, my /boot partition is ext3. I just wonder, what is the benefiet of using xfs above ext3?
Frans.
Hi Frans, I have experienced such 'ghost' files in the past. The entire '/' filesystem would eventually become corrupted and I'd have to 'wipe the slate clean' and reinstall. This turned out to be a **hardware specific** problem (chipset / host controller module + hard drive firmware) that could be triggered in one of two ways: a) combining disparate filesystem types on the same drive. As I recall, double-buffering was default enabled with some filesystem types and not others. The symptoms went away when I selected a single filesystem type for use in all partitions on that drive, i.e. all reiserfs or all ext3 or all ext2, and so on, b) installing into an existing '/' partition without first mounting it and deleting all the contents. To reiterate, this experience was **hardware specific** so YMMV. hth & regards, Carl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org