Florian Philipp <f.philipp <at> addcom.de> writes:
> You do not only need to mount it with notail, you need to write all files > with > notail in the first place. Hmm, I have several system where I use this for the fstab with reiser: /dev/hda2 /boot reiserfs defaults 1 2 so the defaults include notial? > So ... > 1. boot from CD > 2. mount -o notail /dev/hda1 /mount/gentoo > 3. tar czf /tmp/boot.tar.gz /mount/gentoo/* > 4. rm -rf /mount/gentoo/* > 5. tar xzf /tmp/boot.tar.gz -C /mount/gentoo/ I'm going to try this and even edit the fstab to reflect notail. I did not see this anywhere in the Handbook section on grub, although they do talk about notail in the fstab stuff.... > Or you switch to ext2 because you do not need a filesystem with journal on a > partition that doesn't need to be bigger than 50MB. I like reiserfs, even for boot partitions. It is wonderful. ext2 may be superior () but, I really, really like reiserfs and use it on lots of boot partitions for gentoo systems. I also use larger /boot partitions to keep multiple kernels and related files. A few hundered megabytes does not significantly hurt, when using a HD. If I go to 2 gig compact flash cards, then I'll revisit these issues. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
