any idea how much space the Journaling stuff takes on the HDD. If it's
journaling all the stuff, it should be writing it somewhere. I was just
wondering how much space do we have to compromise for the journaling to work.
If it's another RAID-1 (mirroring) style disk allocation, i wont be needing it.
Heck, what's SysRq for anywayz? ;)
Nikhil.
On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 01:48:22PM +0530, Rohit wrote:
> "Nagarjuna G." wrote:
> > I have installed SuSE 6.4 with ReiserFS. I have also noticed that it
> > does not allow to change on /boot partition. Is this a feature or
> > a bug?
>
>
> SuSE 6.4 ??? Is it out already? Good. anyway, back the the feature/bug
> war. I think the total idea is that SuSE probably goofed up. No, not
> their fault that people are not writing fdisk etc [as Binand pointed
> out earlier] for this FS. But I think my scheme of parition
>
> /boot 16 mb EXT2
> SWAP 128 MB
> /usr bahut sara
> /extended partition with N logical volumes for /tmp /etc /var etc. etc..
> is a good scheme. Though I went about it the really hard way.
>
> One YaST2 installation with almost everything. Automatically done.
> Observed the sizes of each directory at the root and some logical
> deductions. Came up with the approximate partition scheme for my
> HDD. Then repartitioned after normalizing the size of partition
> proportionately. And finally, got it. Right now, almost all of
> my partitions are rather comfortably distributed and in 8.4 GB
> of total space on my machine, only 16 MB is in ext2.
>
> Like I said, waiting for a crash. Or to cause it myself.
> Hang on, Binand. I might need the set for some more time :-D
>
> Rohit
>
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