>>> On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 11:22:39 -0500, "Jeffrey R. Born" >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
jborn> [ ... ] Used Disk Druid to get the initial partitions in jborn> place and though I created a LVM but didn't format it. jborn> Nowhere did Disk Druid ask me if I wanted to use JFS. Well, thats like it is, unfortunately; while Fedora supports JFS, its _installer_ does not support it in its wizard. One can still install to JFS, but one has to choose ''expert mode'' and create partitions and filesystems manually instead of using Disk Druid. Once the 'root' partition and filesystem is created one can use tools like 'qtparted' to add other partitions and filesystems, for example of JFS type. [ ... ] jborn> First issue df -k does not list this logical partition. 'df' lists the _mounted_ filesystems (and only those of the mounted filesystems that are listed in '/etc/mtab', which may not list all). Partitions are sections of disk that may (or may not) contain a filesystem (conceivably a partition may contain more than one, but this would be extraordinarily weird), which is instead a collection of files/directories. Then even if a partition contains a filesystem, it may or may not be mounted (which more or less means ''activated''). Filesystems may also be inside things that are not partitions, like a whole CD or DVD (filesystems of type 'iso9660' or 'udf' usually), or even inside files (mountable with '-o loop'). jborn> How do I show the partitions after I have Linux installed? The file '/proc/partitions' lists all the partitions the kernel knows about currently (basically all those on discs the kernel is aware of), whether or not they contain filesystems. You can check that a partition contains a JFS filesystem with something like 'jfs_tune -l /dev/<whatever>'. jborn> How can I verify that my installation of FC4 has JFS jborn> support? Does this have to be compiled in? Well, JFS support is mostly part of the kernel, and all modern kernels have it compiled in, and I occasionally use Fedora 4 and its kernel definitely has JFS support. jborn> With it installed/not installed can I use yum to get the jborn> latest JFS/JFSUtils? If so where is the repo? The JFS utilities are part of the standard Fedora Core set, and the package name for Fedora 4 is "jfsutils-1.1.7-2.i386.rpm". ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. Get Certified Today * Register for a JBoss Training Course Free Certification Exam for All Training Attendees Through End of 2005 Visit http://www.jboss.com/services/certification for more information _______________________________________________ Jfs-discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jfs-discussion
