On 5 Oct 01, at 2:15, Franki wrote:
> he made it sound easy, I have not yet needed to try it..
>
civileme makes everything sound easy :-)
That probably comes from the fact that he seems to understand
everything :-)
Doc Evans
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No conversion is possible. You can only reformat to Reiser. The only
non-destructive filesystem change possible is from ext2 to ext3, which might
also provide many/most of the benefits of Reiser.
If you have space, you could backup your system into tarballs(piecemeal if
you have multiple par
I use reiser for all my partitions (/, /usr, and /home). And I've actually
had a lot of crashes and lockups due 1st to a hard drive that was failing,
then a flakey disk controller, playing with a lot of beta drivers and
software, kernel mods etc. Since going to reiserfs, the system has always
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Original Message
Subject: Re: [expert] Best FS to use for / ?
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 21:00:15 -0700
From: Ken Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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I hope this is helpful...
I have been using MDK7.
For all practical purposes, ext2 is probably the best filesystem for /boot.
99% of the time, you aren't even going to be writing to /boot, or for that
matter even reading from it except when booting. So the benefits of a
journalling filesystem isn't really needed.
As for /, my feeling is that Re
t: [expert] Best FS to use for / ?
Judging from the review I read from Tom in the Mandrake Forum, it looks
like ReiserFS is the best one to use for my needs (looks like it offers the
best speed and lowest CPU utilization over-all, unless I'm completely
missing something). I always mount a
Judging from the review I read from Tom in the Mandrake Forum, it looks
like ReiserFS is the best one to use for my needs (looks like it offers the
best speed and lowest CPU utilization over-all, unless I'm completely
missing something). I always mount a seperate /boot partition as the first
