Re: filesystem Qs

Thanks Kevin,

When I was adhering to the doctrinally correct partitioning plan, I
would make a /boot partition fairly small. I don't remember, but I
suppose it was considerably less than 100 MB. Now, I have all but
abandoned my former theological position regarding partitioning for a
simple / and /home. I have a couple of reinstalls to accomplish so maybe
I will try reiserfs or one of the others again. fgd.

Kevin Miller wrote:
> Fielder George Dowding wrote:
>
>>Well, let me repeat, _Apparently_ grub ... needs ext3 .... At least my
>>last dozen or so Debian installs complained when I tried to use any
>>other file system for the boot partition.
>
>
> I use grub, and have my /boot partition on ext2. The rest is on rieser
> (using SuSE). To use a journaling fs the partition needs to be at least
> 100 MB to make room for the journal or the install routine complains.
> That may be what you're bumping into with Debian, but it's just not
> explaining it as clearly as the SuSE install routine does. I didn't
> want to burn that much space so I set the /boot partition to ext2 and it
> works a treat...
>
>
>
> ...Kevin
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