-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Phil Brutsche wrote:
> A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > does anyone have experience with installing ReiserFS? (or any other > > journaling filesystems?) > > I don't, but the installation process is the same if you're going to > replace the HD that provided the root fs. > > > what i'd like to do is > > a) booting from a disk > > b) dd my / to a free partition > > c) reformat my root-partition with ReiserFS > > d) dd the root-backup back to my root-partition > > > > [...] AFAIK the ReiserFS is not mountable (e.g. not even read only) when it is corrupted (which might happen after a system crash). The only way to rescue such a system would be with the help of the rescue disk, which gives you much less tools than a small root partition. Therefore you don't want a ReiserFS root partition. Martin - -- Where do you want to go today? - As far from Redmond as possible! For public PGP-key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBOFabm7CGSMW7I2etAQEeQwP+PwnaMNAfcU7HfFBwaYgP7PhqW6MLNy5l Er/WEmbmmpbE6cwbm83f8yL8Siordzr1U2VWJkM1n0JTG7V9zqr8wSy78h0c4d9Q OoTgodGU3T1exK78ZAZGr4IKcY9JzOFXS/aIOWuzAwImvLgnIjt6opXTCKnvvFPm b7qJ3yQnUxg= =/dih -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
