I am running out of space on this drive. I know I can just add another drive to the system and use cp to move the contents of /home as root But I want to know since this is not a install what file system would be best for the new /home ? I have heard some good things abour reiser file system do to with journaling and recovery. I forrmatted the partition when I created it on another system which had a windows utility just to be sure the drive was ok. What I am unsure about is all the command line switches for mkreiserfs and weather I should use the defaults manually or use yast partitioner. -- ___ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ | | | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/
On Wednesday 31 August 2005 12:07 pm, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
I am running out of space on this drive. I know I can just add another drive to the system and use cp to move the contents of /home as root But I want to know since this is not a install what file system would be best for the new /home ? I have heard some good things abour reiser file system do to with journaling and recovery. I forrmatted the partition when I created it on another system which had a windows utility just to be sure the drive was ok. The advantage of any journaling file system is fast recovery during a reboot after a crash or improper shutdown. I personally prefer ReiserFS, but EXT3 has some advantages in that Windows either has of will have an EXT2 file system so that you can view files under Windows. JFS and XFS are also excellent.
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Jerry Feldman wrote:
has some advantages in that Windows either has of will have an EXT2 file system so that you can view files under Windows.
Windows does not, and probably never will have native support for any filesystem other than the Microsoft's filesystems. However, there are applications that can deal with other filesystems. Partition Magic can resize ext2 and ext3 partitions, and correctly make both as well as swap partitions. There is a plug in for total commander that allows it (but nothing else) to read ext2, which is also pretty useful. Hans
On Wednesday 31 August 2005 5:06 pm, Hans du Plooy wrote:
Windows does not, and probably never will have native support for any filesystem other than the Microsoft's filesystems. The key word is native, and you are correct on that point. There was work going on to add ext2 support to Windows (probably as an add on). I ventured on that as I was doing research for a paper I was writing. Here is the home page for Explore2fs: http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm Native IO is now the default for NT based operating systems. The version now has experimental support for LVM2 which is used by default by RHEL4 and FC3. Only linear stripes are supported at the moment. This version can also detect ReiserFS and will display a warning that This Program Can NOT Read ReiserFS.
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On Wednesday 31 August 2005 17:18, Jerry Feldman wrote:
Here is the home page for Explore2fs: http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm Native IO is now the default for NT based operating systems. The version now has experimental support for LVM2 which is used by default by RHEL4 and FC3. Only linear stripes are supported at the moment. This version can also detect ReiserFS and will display a warning that This Program Can NOT Read ReiserFS.
Hi Jerry, I posted this a while back and, of course, it isn't native support but this little package has helped me out in a pinch before... From the readme: "LTOOLS 6.10 Program to read LINUX Extended 2/3 and Reiser Filesystems on PCs from within DOS/Windows or from UNIX operating systems ... Revision 2.x and newer are released to public under the GNU GPL license, see file COPYING. You are using the program on your own risk. The newest version of the LTOOLS can be found under http://www.fht-esslingen.de/~zimmerma/software/ltools.htm" regards, - Carl
Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
I am running out of space on this drive. I know I can just add another drive to the system and use cp to move the contents of /home as root But I want to know since this is not a install what file system would be best for the new /home ? I have heard some good things abour reiser file system do to with journaling and recovery. I forrmatted the partition when I created it on another system which had a windows utility just to be sure the drive was ok.
What I am unsure about is all the command line switches for mkreiserfs and weather I should use the defaults manually or use yast partitioner.
I've never used more than "fdisk /dev/hdd" and "mkreiserfs /dev/hdd1" e.g, You could also do it via YaST with the same result. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Keen licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks
Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
I am running out of space on this drive. I know I can just add another drive to the system and use cp to move the contents of /home as root But I want to know since this is not a install what file system would be best for the new /home ?
Let us suppose you have one disc on primary master (hda) and you put this disc on primary slave (hdb). Lets also suppose you want to use the whole disc for /home. 1. fdisk /dev/hdb 2. use "d" to delete existing partitions 3. use n to create new partition, choose primary, 1, use the default sizes - it will fill up the whole disc. 4. mkfs.reiserfs /dev/hdb1 5. mkdir /newhome 6. mount /dev/hdb1 /newhome 7. cp -av /home/* /newhome/ 8. Verify that everything has copied - do a du -lhs in both /home and /newhome. Also check that permissions and ownerships are correct, but this should automatically be. 9. Once you're satisfied that you have everything you need in /newhome, you can safely delete the contents of /home. It is not really necessary, because when you mount a drive on /home, the contents of /home will be hidden. But you want to free up disc space, don't you? rm -rf /home/* 10. umount /newhome 11. mount /dev/hdb1 /home 12. put an entry for /home in /etc/fstab Hope that helps! Hans
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 09:07 -0700, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
I am running out of space on this drive. I know I can just add another drive to the system and use cp to move the contents of /home as root But I want to know since this is not a install what file system would be best for the new /home ? I have heard some good things abour reiser file system do to with journaling and recovery. I forrmatted the partition when I created it on another system which had a windows utility just to be sure the drive was ok.
What I am unsure about is all the command line switches for mkreiserfs and weather I should use the defaults manually or use yast partitioner.
I have used the YaST partitioner to partition and format a new hard drive without doing a new install. The bonus side is that you can also have it mounted by the partitioner as well, kind of a one stop tool. Mike
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