quote from SuSE 6.4 Official installation manual

"Please do _not_ use ReiserFS together with RAID 1 and RAID 5
software. For hardware RAID solutions there are no such limitations. A
ReiserFS partition currently must be at least 34 MB large.

"To ensure there are no problems, create a separate boot partition with
the ext2 filesystem and install LILO there. This is the standard SuSE
Linux configuration."


I read this after installing software raid and making mkreiserfs on it. It
was working properly but did not recover from a power failure (couldn't
test a disk failure ;-) Also LILO does seem to have problems booting from
ReiserFS (as discussed earlier in this list)

reiserfs pages are available at http://devlinux.com/projects/reiserfs/
together with manual pages.

My findings:
It is possible to resize an unmounted partition using resize_reiserfs but
with some limitations. Size can only be increased if mkreiserfs had been
called previously with block count less than that of whole partition.
mount -o remount,resize=<more block counts> <mount point>       is
probably not doing anything. mount shows the resize option in it's
output but df does not show any increase in space. Also I cannot write
data to the partition after it is 100% full (strange?). So I have a
problem:

How can I use space left on a partition to add to another mountpoint.
(ie.    /dev/hda9 on /opt is 800MB
        /dev/hda10 on /usr is 5GB
I want /opt to grow to a maximum of 2GB
        /usr to be a maximum of 2.5GB
and the rest of /dev/hda10 (or whatever it becomes) as /data . Everything
is formatted ReiserFS right now)

Any suggestions would be great, thanks,
Indraneel

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