[lug] Redhat 7.1 beta and RieserFS

[D. Stimits]

"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.
> 
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Have you heard about if or when fdisk will itself offer the ReiserFS
option? I noticed that the source installed with the patched RH kernel
does have a set of reiserfs source files with it (incidentally, one of
this is named "tail_conversion.c"...probably related to the -notail).
I'm debating repartitioning for a separate /boot, which I didn't do on
this first install. Since this install isn't full of critical software
yet, I could risk losing it without much fear. Is there a url or other
information you might know of with more info on the -notail option?

Plus a general question to the RH admins. I think there might be a way
to store the current package list of this install on a floppy, so I can
simply refer to that when reinstalling (instead of reselecting each
package again by hand). I know SuSE has this ability, but how does RH do
this?

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com