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From: Dale <dalek1967@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: reiserfsprogs
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 14:33:12
Message-Id: 46ADF528.5000908@bellsouth.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: reiserfsprogs by Florian Philipp
1 Florian Philipp wrote:
2 > Am Montag 30 Juli 2007 13:53 schrieb Dale:
3 >
4 >> Florian Philipp wrote:
5 >>
6 >>> Just as a side note: It is not very wise to choose reiserfs for /boot. We
7 >>> had a topic about it some time ago. On such a small partition the journal
8 >>> eats up a lot of space (32MB with default settings).
9 >>>
10 >> I'm not sure the math is 100% correct but it has to be close. I agree,
11 >> you should not use reiserfs for /boot, unless it is going to be a big
12 >> one. lol
13 >>
14 >>
15 >>> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
16 >>> /dev/hda1 195508 43440 152068 23% /boot
17 >>>
18 >>> root@smoker / # du -sh /boot/
19 >>> 11M /boot/
20 >>> root@smoker / #
21 >>>
22 >> 43Mb according to df and only 11Mb according to du. Looks like about
23 >> 32Mb or so. See, learn from a idiot that did it. ;-)
24 >>
25 >> Dale
26 >>
27 >> :-) :-) :-)
28 >>
29 >
30 > I just looked into the man page of mkreiserfs:
31 >
32 > default blocksize: 4096 byte
33 > default jounal size: 8193 blocks
34 >
35 > 4096 bytes/block * 8193 blocks / 1024^2 = 32.003906 MiB
36 >
37
38 It's not 100% but pretty darn close. ;-) Like you said earlier, you
39 shouldn't use reiserfs for small partitions like /boot.
40
41 Signed,
42
43 The Idiot. LOL
44
45 :-) :-)