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On Tuesday 02 October 2007, Neil Walker wrote: |
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> Francesco Talamona wrote: |
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> > IIRC you have to use special mount option to use ReiserFS for /boot |
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> > partition. |
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> Using reiserfs on a /boot partition is just plain silly. ;) |
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> Furthermore, in this day and age, why would you even want a /boot |
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> partition? FWIW, using reiserfs on my 64bit systems (Opteron, |
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> Athlon64, Pentium D, Athlon X2, Core2 Duo) works fine without any |
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> issues or hoops to jump through with /boot on the / partition. |
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Note: I'm not advertising ReiserFS for /boot :-) |
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I think that any choice is good, given that you know what are doing; see |
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the other thread (Backups), where is shown as xfs can be a good choice |
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for /boot. |
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That said I always used ext2 for /boot (or not kept it on a separate |
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partition). |
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Ciao |
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Francesco |
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CEST 2007 |
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One 2.2GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 4408.87 Bogomips Total |
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aemaeth |
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