ext2 ext3 and reiserfs

sehris · 05-10-2003, 04:17 PM

Slack 9 gives the option of formatting to one of these file systems on install. the main differencei know of so far is that ext 3 and reiser are both journaling file systems...though i don't know exactly what that means. can anyone shed light on these 3 and the pro's and cons of each to help me make a decision on wich to use?

also, i'm not sure of this, but i think that permissions are a bit wierd with reiserfs. the reason being is because i used it for a box i setup at home and no matter how i try changing the grp of an mp3 folder i have, my general user account can't access it. i can read ls the folder with no prob, but i can't cd into it even after i chown'ed it to the user group 100. the way i have it set up is this:

/dev/hdb has only one partition and its formatted as fat32 because its my archive hd wich all the comps on my network access for mp3's and other media. its mounted in the root directory as /archives on boot. root, of course, can access everything just fine, but only root can do so. i have only one other user account as a generic user (default gid of 100 in slack 9) and it cannot access anything in /archive . i've even copied the mp3 folder into /home/mp3 and then chown -r 100 /home/mp3 and the user account STILL can't access it. i've not had this issue before onlder versions of linux, but then again this is the first time i've ever formatted my root partition as anything but ext2.

any help/input would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

fancypiper · 05-10-2003, 04:30 PM

Here are some articles (requires registration) that explain the various Linux filsystems thoroughly.

sehris · 05-10-2003, 05:36 PM

thanks for the link, i've been searching and for some reason not pulling up anything to useful myself. any comments on the other issue?

fancypiper · 05-10-2003, 05:48 PM

Try the chown like this:

chown -R <owner>.<group> /home/mp3

That does sub directories. You changed just the owner.

If you still have trouble with sub directories, make sure they have permissions of 755.

sehris · 05-10-2003, 06:27 PM

thanks fancypiper.

i should have done an ls -l on the directory to see the permissions, they were set to dwrx-r--r- . i'll try the chmod you suggested.