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Duncan wrote: |
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> Now, of course, I'm on Gentoo, and use cfdisk (curses-fdisk) to do the |
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> partitioning, and then format the new partitions myself, later. cfdisk |
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> even works to partition Linux-kernel RAID, as that's what I used to do the |
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> partitioning on my current RAID-(0/1/6) system. I then do mkreiserfs |
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> manually, from the command line (rebooting between changing the partition |
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> layout and creating the filesystem, naturally). cfdisk uses a less fancy |
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> tabular format, but it's still surprisingly easy, not requiring the user |
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> to figure out sector addresses and the like unless they want to. |
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I don't mind using whatever tools are available for the initial partitioning |
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scheme, but this box gets treated pretty much as a development machine |
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would, with partitions moving up and down and being copied between disks far |
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more often than lots of people would find comfortable! |
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A nice, easy, graphical program like Partition Magic is just the thing for |
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that. I don't have to have a Windows partition to run it from, as version 8 |
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can boot from its own CD. That's a DOS version of course, so pretty |
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partition labels are out, but they can easily be changed with tunefs later. |
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If I were to switch to Reiser, I'd have to copy all the data to an extXfs |
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partition first, delete the Reiser, create it somewhere else and then copy |
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all the data back again. Slow, and error-prone. Not my idea of a workable |
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backup strategy. |
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I'll sit back now and wait for the howls of indignation! |
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Rgds |
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Peter. |
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