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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.

-- 
Jamin W. Collins



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