[gentoo] the new xfs fs support

[Collins]

On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 09:49:39 -0500 (EST)
Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, m.w.chang wrote:
> > it's the 1.4 rc2 686 LiveCD
> >
> > just downloaded the gentoo 1.4rc2 LiveCD.
> > the installation guide didn't mention how to create a xfs root
> > partition. what should I do to use xfs?
> 
> Create a linux partition, and format for xfs.
> 
> > btw, the step of using dd to clean the first 1k of partition could
> > be dangerous, isn't it? a wrong output device will render your
> > harddisk unbootable, if not daming the FAT of an existing data
> > partition.... :)
> 
> No more dangerous than any other command you run as root.  Why would
> you need to use dd for this anyway??
> 

I don't know how it is with other fs types, but a partition once
formatted as reiserfs may retain some knowledge of its reiserness after
formatting as ext2/3, the result being that you can't use a mount
command without the type explicitly specified.  Granted, this was many
months ago, so this behavior may have been fixed along the way.


-- 
Collins Richey - Denver Area
gentoo 1.4 system