Is Ext3/Ext2 only possible?
Posted: Wed 22 Aug 2007, 10:25
Hi, i'm trying to optimise my old laptop for speed as much as possible. To do this i'm experimenting with File Systems. From various sources jfs, xfs and reiserfs appear to be the best. reiserfs seems to be the best for small files (installation) but uses the cpu more than the other 2. JFS uses the least amount of cpu but is a little slower (something to do with latency) whereas xfs is a good balance and reccomended by Debian (i think).
The issue i'm having is instaling to puppy to a jfs partition. My HDD is setup as part1=3GB jfs. part2=650MB swap (doubt i really need that). After the files have been copied over the installation tries to setup Grub. Normally what i do is select MBR but this option is not available to me. It tries to setup in /dev/hda1 (where puppy is) but spits out an error about unable to mount and something about a r/w issue. I try to do it in expert mode, select MBR and the same thing happens again.
Is an installation not possible with jfs or should i setup a partitions specifically for GRUB?
[edit] just found the error
The issue i'm having is instaling to puppy to a jfs partition. My HDD is setup as part1=3GB jfs. part2=650MB swap (doubt i really need that). After the files have been copied over the installation tries to setup Grub. Normally what i do is select MBR but this option is not available to me. It tries to setup in /dev/hda1 (where puppy is) but spits out an error about unable to mount and something about a r/w issue. I try to do it in expert mode, select MBR and the same thing happens again.
Is an installation not possible with jfs or should i setup a partitions specifically for GRUB?
[edit] just found the error
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mount: Mounting /dev/hda1 on /tmp/boot failed: Invalid argument
I couldn't mount '/dev/hda1' read-write!