[lug] Redhat 7.1 beta and RieserFS

Ferdinand Schmid fschmid at archenergy.com
Tue Feb 13 12:55:59 MST 2001


"Michael J. Pedersen" wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 11:10:45AM -0700, Ferdinand Schmid wrote:
> > You also can't boot off a Reiserfs partition.  So you need at least a small
> > /boot partition that is ext2.
>
> Actually, yes, you can boot off of a reiserfs partition. It requires a
> particular option be passed in for mounting / (I believe it's -notail), but it
> can be done. I know it can, because I've done it in the past.  Check their
> webpage for specifics on how to do it.

Thanks for the update.  My posting was based on (I believe) a SUSE knowledgebase
article that I found when I first installed a system with Reiserfs.  They seem to
be one of the major sponsors for that dev effort.

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