[Gllug] Reiserfs faster boot

[Nick Hill]

Installation is quite straightforward. This is how I installed reiser as my root partition, carrying my existing system over.

1) Make sure your kernel has ReiserFS compiled into it. (if not using reiser for root parition, a module should be OK)
2) Install reiser utils (I compiled latest utils from namesys.net)
3) mkreiserfs <partition>  #This will destroy existing data on partition!
4) mount <reiser partiton> <Mount Point>
5) cp -ax bin dev home lost+found mnt opt root tmp var boot etc lib sbin usr <mount point>
6) cd <mount point>
7) mkdir proc
8) emacs etc/lilo.conf (edit bootloader to point to your new root partition)
9) lilo
10) emacs <mount point>/etc/fstab (change partition for root eg change "/dev/hda6 / ext2 default 1 1" to "/dev/hda2 / reiserfs defaults 1 0" where hda2 is the reiser partition and hda6 is yor original ext2 partition)
11) reboot
12) Enjoy!






On Fri, 5 Oct 2001 15:25:40 +0100
Simon Stewart <sms at lateral.net> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 02:46:35PM +0100, Nick Hill wrote:
> > 
> > ReiserFS is worth migrating to!
> 
> Not until Debian has included it as an installation option in the
> stable distro. Yes, I know all about the handy reiserfs disks that are
> already available, but the method they use for installing it isn't
> exactly elegant....  :)
> 
> Having said that, I do have a couple of resiser partitions here, and
> it works nicely.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Simon
> 
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