On Fri, February 3, 2006 12:58 pm, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: >> There are also some booting issues if you want to use reiserfs. > > Ehh, which? Some people who don't like reiser like to repeat this, that > doesn't make it correct though. IIRC I've booted from reiser for as long > as I've used reiser (kernel 2.2), no separate /boot either[1]. And for > all of this time reiser was compiled as module: no booting issues. ... but then you don't use Fedora either. Google will back me up, and my personal experience, of course. > There's no need any more to bother with /boot. My '99 mobo doesn't need > it. > >> fill the root filesystem. I wouldn't bother with /boot, but *would* use >> a >> separate / partition with ext2/3. > > Yes, good idea to have a separate /. No reason though to make it ext2/3 > any more than making it any other filesystem (ok, except iso ;). > Keep the size of / within reason and you won't have a bios problem. > > Actually, don't use ext2 on anything above 1GB, or you're fscked > forever. Whick is the multimedia - oriented distro? My brain's a bit slow today ( supreme nerdiness notwithstanding ), but I have a feeling they use ext2. I know Oracle recommend it for similar ( few, big files ) reasons. I expect I'm wrong, and it's probably ext3, though.
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