From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00A8013877A for ; Sat, 6 Sep 2014 12:48:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 10266E09CC; Sat, 6 Sep 2014 12:48:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qa0-f42.google.com (mail-qa0-f42.google.com [209.85.216.42]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EBD33E08BB for ; Sat, 6 Sep 2014 12:48:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qa0-f42.google.com with SMTP id dc16so8225550qab.15 for ; Sat, 06 Sep 2014 05:48:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=34YAuU+XOH89iiA2RGj4EdWHn/9g9luznxtJij/Lsg8=; b=lVpKlFXlO7nwGf3Odv8cHV8cvVW4rrDS8GcRJyAgXLyStLi9UQqXNj/EdDIVJmx14r 1HbUvIvDbGGzcjLY9ZKB0YgLFXetUILYg+u723URyYIoFmj1OySw/4RunzwwIfiUyR2M 08vYAyi2lkHus29jzaPiYdnwLQBDlPuPj19S7YpMCS1mZZGjjYKoJ8b05DAEbrN74ymu dmctPuMV9V5pogYiNszRBITp2N5l1fZmKiae8oyCGifiz8l2iL6XQOzdVgdO0knKrdzC f71kCOhA4AV7L6lni04nbMg7+cJvBt3g7iLuLH83aStGADcge6UrJeZeqvS1TPFedH7e Ow9w== X-Received: by 10.224.38.10 with SMTP id z10mr27268078qad.52.1410007724144; Sat, 06 Sep 2014 05:48:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-74-240-55-140.jan.bellsouth.net. [74.240.55.140]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id l10sm3156083qai.4.2014.09.06.05.48.43 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 06 Sep 2014 05:48:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <540B02AA.60401@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2014 07:48:42 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0 SeaMonkey/2.26.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: MBR partition References: <20140906030219.GR7971@syscon7> <20140906031059.GS7971@syscon7> <540AA690.1090905@fastmail.co.uk> <20140906104456.GA23438@syscon7> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: c9962d80-670f-4281-858a-12441b799f8f X-Archives-Hash: fb96479929d37e4def799ae59ffe0325 James wrote: > Joseph gmail.com> writes: > >> Thank you for the information. >> I'll continue on Monday and let you know. If it will not boot with sector > starting at 2048, I will >> re-partition /boot sda1 to start at 63. > > Take some time to research and reflect on your needs (desires?) > about which file system to use. (ext 2,4) is always popular and safe. > Some are very happy with BTRFS and there are many other interesting > choices (ZFS, XFS, etc etc)...... > > There is no best solution; but the EXT family offers tried and proven > options. YMMV. > > > hth, > James > I'm not sure if it is ZFS or XFS but I seem to recall one of those does not like sudden shutdowns, such as a power failure. Maybe that has changed since I last tried whichever one it is that has that issue. If you have a UPS tho, shouldn't be so much of a problem, unless your power supply goes out. Just a little heads up in case it matters. Oh, I use ext2 for /boot and ext4 for everything else, some of that on top of LVM. I switched from reiserfs a good while back, bit rot. So far, I been really pleased with ext4. Dale :-) :-)