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Peter Humphrey posted <43F49AFF.6040403@××××××××××.uk>, excerpted below, |
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on Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:32:15 +0000: |
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>> All that dealt with, there's only one possibly valid reason I'm aware of, |
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>> for those already splitting out the portage tree onto its own partition, |
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>> why they might /not/ wish to use reiserfs. Those that only have ext2/3 |
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>> configured in their kernel may not wish to bother configuring reiserfs for |
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>> just the portage tree. |
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> I'd better tell you my reason then - I've been using Partition Magic to |
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> manipulate my partitions for several years now, and it doesn't do Reiser. |
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LOL! You /would/ come up with that sort of reason. =8^) |
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I used to swear by Partition Magic back on MSWormOS, the more so once I |
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made the /bad/ mistake of upgrading to Quarterdeck's (IIRC) Partition-it, |
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and kept having troubles -- turned out when I gave up and returned to |
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Partition Magic, Partition-it had created what amounted to an invalid |
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partition -- some of it's settings weren't correct! |
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Mandrake's graphical partitioning tool (disk-drake, IIRC), however, will |
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be quite comfortable to use for anyone already familiar with Partition |
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Magic. I took to it in no time! I initially switched to the Mandrake |
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solution after I wrote to Partition Magic as I was getting ready to switch |
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to Linux, and they said they weren't going to bother supporting all the |
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file system types in the standard 2.4 kernel, and had no immediate plans |
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to run on Linux, either. As I had a goal of switching entirely to Linux, |
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needless to say, no more Partition Magic purchases for me! I continued to |
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use the older Partition Magic to do the initial partitioning, then used |
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disk-drake to format everything reiserfs, as that's what I had decided to |
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use, after finding and digesting DRobbins' file system series on |
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DeveloperWorks. (Who could have guessed at that point that in a |
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couple years I'd be switching to the distrib he founded. I certainly |
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had no clue or premonition. In fact, I didn't realize it was one and |
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the same guy until I had already switched to Gentoo and was doing some |
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research on data=ordered, when that got added to reiserfs for the main |
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kernel. Happy coincidence! =8^) |
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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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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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