On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 22:39, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: > One Caveat: > > /boot or whatever the /boot directory is in MUST be an EXT2 file system > or the kernel will not load! > > -JMS >
Ummm, actually we did a number on initrd.img so it doesn't have to be, but if you want more than one system on the machine and want to be able to boot them, then /boot had better be ext2. But if you have only one linux system on the machine, you can get away with XFS or reiserfs or ext3 handily. Even JFS will work. ext3 will mount as ext2 for booting other systems, but if you do for example an XFS /boot then the system / will be assumed to be XFS and a second system with say ext2 or ext3 for / won't boot. I guess you can tell I had fun testing the journaling systems.-) ext2, XFS, and Reiser were all the same order of magnitude for speed and JFS was quite noticeably faster but not entirely stable while ext3 was about 66% of ext2 in speed. JFS needs to be defragmented from time to time and uses a lot more storage for the same anmount of data while XFS and Reiser and ext3 use trivial extra amounts over ext2. Reiser still doesn't work well with NFS, but XFS and the others have no apparent problem. Civileme > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Miark > Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 4:19 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] PNP Bios - Off or On? > > > > As part of the preparations for the LM 8.1 installation, > > I have copied my current /home/me to a separate partition > > (/archives) that is ext2fs. Am I correct that if I do an expert > > install, the / and /archives partitions can be ext2fs, and the > > balance can be one of the journalled formats? > > Yes, but if you make / ext2, then there isn't much left > to make journaled! If /archives is a totally separate partition, then on > install I would make everything except /archives journalled. (Then once > you've moved your stuff > back to /home/me, change the fs on /archives to something journalled, > too ;-) > > > > > ------------=_1009006809-11608-1055 > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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