[SLE] ReiserFS: minimum partition size
we've installed the new reiserfs 3.5.16 on all partitions (and boot from reiserfs) During the install with the new yast, we are not able to create a /boot partition less than 100MB. mkreiserfs gives an error message after a while saying: block should be size 8096 but is 40xx We've tried 10, 20,40,50,70 and 100MB sizes. Any ideas? Robert <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2919.6307" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>we've installed the new reiserfs 3.5.16 on all partitions (and boot from reiserfs)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>During the install with the new yast, we are not able to create a /boot partition less than 100MB.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>mkreiserfs gives an error message after a while saying: block should be size 8096 but is 40xx</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>We've tried 10, 20,40,50,70 and 100MB sizes.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Any ideas?</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Robert</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BODY>
Hi, On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Robert Oschwald wrote:
we've installed the new reiserfs 3.5.16 on all partitions (and boot from reiserfs) During the install with the new yast, we are not able to create a /boot partition less than 100MB. mkreiserfs gives an error message after a while saying: block should be size 8096 but is 40xx We've tried 10, 20,40,50,70 and 100MB sizes.
You should not use ReiserFS on the /boot partition for two reasons: o it is possible, that LILO cannot boot the kernel from there o The log journal itself requires some space on the file system. Therefore you should have at least 100 MB for ReiserFS Apart from that: there is not much change on the /boot partition. It really does not make sense to use a journalling file system for this :) Bye, LenZ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH mailto:grimmer@suse.de Schanzaeckerstr. 10 http://www.suse.de/~grimmer 90443 Nuernberg, Germany -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Robert Oschwald wrote:
we've installed the new reiserfs 3.5.16 on all partitions (and boot from reiserfs) During the install with the new yast, we are not able to create a /boot partition less than 100MB. mkreiserfs gives an error message after a while saying: block should be size 8096 but is 40xx We've tried 10, 20,40,50,70 and 100MB sizes.
Any ideas?
yes. The boot partition should still be ext2. I have an english translation of the german SDB article here, if it's not yet up on SuSE. Juergen
Robert
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* Juergen Braukmann (juergen.braukmann@ruhr-west.de) [20000127 22:07]:
if it's not yet up on SuSE.
No, it's not, but will be shortly as I just did the translation ;-)
Philipp
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