Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions on partitioning HD
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 20:16:22
Message-Id: 20051013210920.18165bfb@krikkit.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions on partitioning HD by Rob
1 On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 11:51:46 -0700, Rob wrote:
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3 > I know that there isn't much of a reason for a Reiser boot partition,
4 > but I ended up doing that anyway, but no problems at all with grub.
5 > Maybe problems were with older versions of the bootloader.
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7 The problem is reiserfs itself. It needs a minimum of around 35MB for the
8 journal, not a good thing when space is at a premium and you want a small
9 partition.
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11 Under the circumstances, I wouldn't have a separate /boot at all. Just /
12 (including /boot) swap and everything else on LVM.
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16 Neil Bothwick
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18 Windows Error #02: Multitasking attempted. System confused.