On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> I am rebuilding a box. I have the woody floppies, I've gotten to the
> point of initializing the root filesystem. Interestingly there is a
> "mkreiserfs" available and it can make the filesystem, but doesn't seem
> to be able to mount it. I've tried to install the modules but it won't
> install until root is mounted....
>
> How do I mount the reiserfs filesystem so I can install on a reiserfs
> cleanly?
Theoretically, this should work iff you have ReiserFS support built into
your kernel. Having it in a module is a pain, since you have to use a
root floppy and|or an initrd which has the module tools and the modules
and mount.
It has been advised to keep your root (and possibly /var) as ext2fs, so
that use an ordinary kernel on a rescue disk (i.e. without ReiserFS) to
repair your system. If you want a journalling FS, you can easily put a
journal on / and make it ext3fs.
I have no direct experience with your situation, because I also put my
Reiserfs on logical volumes. Theoretically it should be possible to put
your root FS on a logical volume (again using an initrd and an init that
keeps running while you chroot to your proper FS), but after 2 weeks I
gave up.
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