[lug] Moving /

Dhruva Reddy sledgehammer2010 at yahoo.com
Fri Apr 26 12:00:24 MDT 2002


Yeah, I saw some funkiness with ReiserFS--I could have
sworn that when I was mucking around with the root
partition, files started disappearing from /usr. 
Didn't exactly inspire confidence.

--- "Timothy C. Klein" <teece at silverklein.net> wrote:
> * Dhruva Reddy (sledgehammer2010 at yahoo.com) wrote:
> > Thanks for the responses.
> > 
> > As for the root-on-a-floppy solution, I tried to
> > modify Debian's root disk, with no success.  I
> didn't
> > think to use the distributions-on-a-floppy.
> > 
> > Anyway, I have since given up on this.  At a
> friend's
> > suggestion, I ended up going to ext3 instead.
> > 
> > Perhaps I will play around with this again in the
> > future.
> > 
> 
> Ha, this is what I did, too.  Ext3 is much easier to
> get to with Debian,
> (since the stable installer only supports ext2). 
> FWIW, I have had odd,
> terribly hard to trouble shoot problems with
> Reiserfs.  The problems may
> not have even been reiser, but they went away when I
> switched to ext3.
> 
> Tim
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