Re: reiserfs on kickstart?

"Christopher McCrory" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.release.taroon.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello...

On Fri, July 21, 2006 6:25 pm, William Yardley wrote:
> Is it possible to format a partition (not / or /boot, if it matters) as
> reiserfs on RHEL 3?
>
> I put:
> --fstype reiserfs
>
> for that partition in the kickstart config file, but I get an error
> about mkreiserfs failing. I'm guessing it's because the reiserfs module
> isn't loaded or something, but couldn't find any information on how to
> make it work.

If nothing was installed on the FS, this should work

%post
umount /postgresql
/sbin/mkfs.reiserfs -f -f /dev/sdb1
# reiserfs kernel module does NOT have to be installed during kickstart
sed --in-place -e "s#postgresql.*ext3#postgresql reiserfs#" /etc/fstab


>
> Not a huge deal, since I can just recreate the partition as reiserfs
> later - just curious if anyone had a quick fix for this.
>

It's much easier to do it during the kickstart phase though  ;)



> If it matters, I'm trying to put it on a 3 disk software RAID0
> partition.
>

If the FS in on raid you will need to do some "df | grep... " magic


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