Ken Moffat wrote: > 2009/8/2 Justin P. Mattock<[email protected]>: > >> After playing around with fedora 11 I notice they are >> using ext4. So after thinking.. >> how difficult is this todo on lfs? >> >> from installing I noticed I needed >> (partition for ext4 to work). >> >> /dev/sda3 ext3 200mb for /boot >> /dev/sda4 ext4 * mb for / >> /dev/sda5 swap 200 mb swap >> > > Pah! Why do you waste space on /boot iwth a journal ? > ext2 for /boot! Also, swap could be optional if you > have enough real memory and don't intend to suspend > to disk. > > For me, the only downside to ext4 is that it needs a > *modern* kernel (I suspect that means 2.6.30 or later, > but perhaps 2.6.29 was ok), which means I can't yet > use it on /home which is shared with older systems. > > Certainly, trying to create an ext4 system for the next > build from a "slightly too old" LFS system was not > particularly pleasant - had to upgrade both e2fsprogs > and util-linux-ng (as well as the kernel) before I was > able to create and mount an ext4 rootfs. Now, it should > be a walk in the park :-) > > ĸen > This was what I ended up using to get fedora installed. (didn't really spend too much time adding)
From doing a quick google it sounds like you can either move ext3 to ext4 using specific tools. or clear the board reformat to ext4 then fill it up with libs/apps.(seems this approach gives you the most performance) As for the /boot thing seems there is a patch for grub2 to not need ext3 to boot to ext4. for the swap I have 300mb allocated for that. (the above partition scheme was for a new machine). I think what I might try is reformatting to ext4 and then use the tutorial to create a new system. (fedora 11 is nice, but this lfs building is addictive). Only real issue I see is I need to create an x86_64 system (need to find the right cflags and such). Justin P. Mattock -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
