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Cowboy Feng
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 Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2004 4:46 am Post subject: Can't use reiserfs for boot partition |
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When I try to create file systems for my newly created partitions, I get the following message:
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#mkreiserfs /dev/hdc1
reiserfs_create_journal: cannot create a journal of 8193 blocks with 18 offset on 7930 blocks
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What gives?
Tought I'd be able to have the same file system on all disks (for consistency), but now I'll have to use ext3 for my boot partition, for reasons I don't understand  |
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pixie
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The partition you made may be smaller than the reiserfs journal is by default.
Journalling is close to pointless on a /boot partition anyway, you may as well just use ext2. |
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Rainmaker
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-s | --journal-size N N is size of journal in blocks. When journal is to be on a separate device - its size defaults to number of blocks that device has. When journal is to be on a host device - its size defaults 8193 and maximal possible value is 32749 (for blocksize 4k). Minimun is 513 for both cases.
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if you really want to use reiser (which, as stated above, is kinda pointless), do a
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Remember to copy the files to your harddisk before doing this, and also remember to copy them back 
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Cowboy Feng
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| Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2004 7:09 pm Post subject: |
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| OK I see. Thanks! |
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