> I recall their were problems with grub and reiser at one point - one > version of grub didn't properly support a version of reiser and booting > would be borked.
Never heard of it. A situation you would never encounter on your distro anyway, as $vendor would have sorted it for you. > Well i have made a small /boot (only 32M) and I am stuck with it short > of a complete re-partition so I'm not going to debate it. Frankly it is > a pain because you have to remember to mount Well that's easy: mount /boot cp -a /boot /boot- umount /boot rmdir /boot mv /boot- /boot grep -v /boot /etc/fstab ... >/etc/fstab edit /etc/grub.conf grub --batch </etc/grub.conf Surely on a 350G disk you can put 32M to rest... you could always add it to swap ho hum. Thanks for the gentoo fs overview, sounds like pretty good guidelines. I read that as "kids: don't try xfs at home". Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.