Re: How to format and partitionate a disk?
On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 12:28:54AM +0100, Mariano Kamp wrote:
> Ok, but I don't intend to format a second drive during the installation
> process, because it is the backup of the data I want to use.
> I was looking for the something like:
> format /dev/hda6 and use reiserfs
You'll still probably need to "partition" the drive, even if it's only
to change the type of a partition to type 83 (Linux).
> Btw. Reiser is not supported in bf2.4?!
Don't know, never tried ReiserFS.
> Well, I am just looking for some journaled file system to be used on a
> single processor machine. I would go for the file system which is the
> easiest to install and wouldn't punish me with beeing extraordinary
> slow.
IMO, that would be ext3. It's very easy to install or convert an
existing ext2 partition to. No performance problems that I've found
with it.
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Jamin W. Collins
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