I love ReiserFS.

So I use ext2. Just kidding

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i select the one "Linux Native" when i install Mandrake, which one is that?
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do this to see what you have

[david@Micro david]$ cat /proc/mounts
/dev/root / ext3 rw,noatime 0 0
/dev /dev devfs rw 0 0
/proc /proc proc rw 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/windows ntfs ro 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows_c ntfs ro 0 0
/proc/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw 0 0


look for the fs type for / and any other linux native partitions you have

Linux Native it the partition type, like Linux (aka type 83), swap (aka type 82), fat16 (aka type .......oh well might as well post them all


0 Empty 1b Hidden Win95 FA 64 Novell Netware bb Boot Wizard hid
1 FAT12 1c Hidden Win95 FA 65 Novell Netware c1 DRDOS/sec (FAT-
2 XENIX root 1e Hidden Win95 FA 70 DiskSecure Mult c4 DRDOS/sec (FAT-
3 XENIX usr 24 NEC DOS 75 PC/IX c6 DRDOS/sec (FAT-
4 FAT16 <32M 39 Plan 9 80 Old Minix c7 Syrinx
5 Extended 3c PartitionMagic 81 Minix / old Lin da Non-FS data
6 FAT16 40 Venix 80286 82 Linux swap db CP/M / CTOS / .
7 HPFS/NTFS 41 PPC PReP Boot 83 Linux de Dell Utility
8 AIX 42 SFS 84 OS/2 hidden C: df BootIt
9 AIX bootable 4d QNX4.x 85 Linux extended e1 DOS access
a OS/2 Boot Manag 4e QNX4.x 2nd part 86 NTFS volume set e3 DOS R/O
b Win95 FAT32 4f QNX4.x 3rd part 87 NTFS volume set e4 SpeedStor
c Win95 FAT32 (LB 50 OnTrack DM 8e Linux LVM eb BeOS fs
e Win95 FAT16 (LB 51 OnTrack DM6 Aux 93 Amoeba ee EFI GPT
f Win95 Ext'd (LB 52 CP/M 94 Amoeba BBT ef EFI (FAT-12/16/
10 OPUS 53 OnTrack DM6 Aux 9f BSD/OS f1 SpeedStor
11 Hidden FAT12 54 OnTrackDM6 a0 IBM Thinkpad hi f4 SpeedStor
12 Compaq diagnost 55 EZ-Drive a5 BSD/386 f2 DOS secondary
14 Hidden FAT16 <3 56 Golden Bow a6 OpenBSD fd Linux raid auto
16 Hidden FAT16 5c Priam Edisk a7 NeXTSTEP fe LANstep
17 Hidden HPFS/NTF 61 SpeedStor b7 BSDI fs ff BBT
18 AST SmartSleep 63 GNU HURD or Sys b8 BSDI swap

not real pretty is it

Use to use ReiserFS, but I use Ext3 now.

David, do you use all those?

Do you mean the partition types?

I only use linux, linux swap, minix, ufs, ntfs, fat16, win95 fat32, hpfs

WHAT! Yeah, that's what I meant.

All on the same computer? Crazy, why the "variation"?

no

not on the same computer.


This one is a laptop and the mounted fs's on it are in the post above.


basically it's linux and windows 2000

I use ext3 on all my machines because they can be mounted as ext2... in case the emergency boot disk doesn't support Reiser. However, I used Reiser for a while and found it to be quicker than ext3... but speed is not an all-important factor, whilst the ability to fix problems is!

Heard ReiserFS was fast with the small files and now stable.

Used Reiserfs(2.4.7) until I lost everything,

waited for a while - until 2.4.19, tried again.

After a short while it was taking upto 5 secs to open one small text file that needed writing to.

Decided to reindex the tree file on the umounted root filesystem. Wiped stuff, system wouldn't start.

Don't like ReiserFS, possibly though because I can't set it up reliably yet fast.

Now using ext3 (ext2 with a journal) bcause the files on my root are mostly smaller than what xfs does best.

....now if only I could convert my legacy ~20gb fat32 backup drive to something less embarrassing...

Ext3 while my hard disk isn't broken.

Andrew

Reiserfs is very fast and stable, IMHO
I have used ext3, and should say that reiserfs is much more better

I'm not too up on the whole ext3 thing. I have to read up on it. Does it really offer a performace increase? Or is it just stablility? I must say that I've never had a problem booting my ext2 fs. I've used RH7.1 and a few other distro's (i'm still a noob though) and have never had an instance where I've had to do a hard reboot.(Knock on wood). OK peace.

No performance/stability increase, just improvments that if the power goes out....

ok I use ext2, can someone tell me which are the main differences between ext2, ext3 and Reiser?, not the speed, but the format, how do they work.

kiitos paljon. BTW, terve Eits.