Linux stuff, and a small fact that you don't need to know

piranha · Post by **piranha** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 12:54 am

So, I just had to re-install SuSE Linux (because I needed to redo the partition table and other stuff), and decided to use XFS as my root FS. Does anyone have ny warnings or "your a f**king idiot" kind of thing?

Oh, and....what does it mean when it (SuSE linux, my development OS) boots and shows the cursor for a second. Then it goes to a blank tty terminal and repeats. However the terminal isn't blank after the first time. Each time theres some more weird characters and eventually covers the screen. I'm confused.

-JL

Alboin · Post by **Alboin** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 1:28 am

piranha wrote:So, I just had to re-install SuSE Linux (because I needed to redo the partition table and other stuff), and decided to use XFS as my root FS. Does anyone have ny warnings or "your a f**king idiot" kind of thing?

IIRC, XFS can't be resized, and it's quite old, with a few vulnerabilities. (I tend to avoid old things when they have a newer, somewhat better alternative.)

It's a strange coincidence that you're also reinstalling your system, as I am currently doing the same with my Gentoo. (353 out 0f 381 packages compiled for GNOME at the time of this writing! Woo hoo!)

Yeah...

xyzzy · Post by **xyzzy** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 1:30 am

Try booting with vga=normal on the kernel command line and remove any video= entries from it. And yes, as Alboin said, XFS is a bit outdated. I'd use Ext3 instead.

piranha · Post by **piranha** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 2:16 am

This problem happened when it loaded the X server.
@Alboin: I've had some trouble with newer file systems, and XFS seems fine now (and very fast). I'm waiting to get reiser4. I'll wait until its incorporated, because 'm lazy and don't want to do it manually.

-JL

Solar · Post by **Solar** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 2:44 am

piranha wrote:I've had some trouble with newer file systems, and XFS seems fine now (and very fast).

Both reiser3.6 and ext3 are fast and very stable. I have never had any problems with either of them on any of the machines I administrate (which, by now, are about one dozen), other than the to-be-expected (fsck after power-loss).

Craze Frog · Post by **Craze Frog** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 6:37 am

http://linuxgazette.net/122/TWDT.html#piszcz

piranha · Post by **piranha** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 12:04 pm

Both reiser3.6 and ext3 are fast and very stable. I have never had any problems with either of them on any of the machines I administrate (which, by now, are about one dozen), other than the to-be-expected (fsck after power-loss).

ext3 was really slow in writing small files, and I used Reiser3.6 up until now. I just wated to give XFS a try, and Reiser was the one I was using when my computer died. Plus, it has crashed before.

-JL

piranha · Post by **piranha** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 12:08 pm

Craze Frog wrote:http://linuxgazette.net/122/TWDT.html#piszcz

What are you saying? "Don't use Reiser4", or what?

-JL

mathematician · Post by **mathematician** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 12:28 pm

Twice when I installed Linux it managed to make the Windows partitions unbootable by messing about with the Windows drive letters. So now I lay out the partitions in advance and, if the distribution in question isn't happy to install onto the partitions I have allocated for it, it doesn't get installed at all. (Linux usually has me spitting blood, so it doesn't tend to stay on there for long anyhow.)

piranha · Post by **piranha** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 2:22 pm

Well, once I get it going, it works fine.

-JL

xyzzy · Post by **xyzzy** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 3:23 pm

mathematician wrote:Twice when I installed Linux it managed to make the Windows partitions unbootable by messing about with the Windows drive letters.

Never happened for me and I've done at least 30 dual-boot Windows/Linux installs. Usually I find it to happen the other way round - Windows always enjoys writing straight over GRUB (when I install Linux first, that is).

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