[Jfs-discussion] Re: In need in help setting up JFS

[JBorn]

Thank you for the information Peter, it has gotten me a little - scratch that - a lot further.

Well I managed to get qtparted install and I can now "see" what I did via Disk Druid

I have

/dev/sda1 type ext3
/dev/sda2 type ext3
/dev/sda3 type swap
/dev/sda4 type extended
/dev/sda5 free

In the background I keep getting the following messages while running qtparted:

Error: Filesystem was not cleanly unmounted! You should e2fsck. Modifying an unclean filesystem could cause severe corruption.
Error: Could not detect file system.

These sound very important, but in reading up on qtparted these messages might be because I'm running an x86_64 installation. Any idea?
Should I be running some sort of file system check weekly?
What is e2fsck.. When I run it suppressing questions I still get the same message in qtparted, and e2fsck does not tell me it did anything.

I believe I want to create a folder /video or /var/video before I use mkfs.jfs. What is the proper location for a video directory? and do I create this before running mkfs.jfs?

Now I want /dev/sda5 to be formatted with jfs what is the mkfs.jfs to run?

Where does mount/umount come into the picture?

Since this is a video partition I want to make sure I can add more drives later and just add space to this logical volume? is the /dev/sda4 of type extended a logical volumn?

Thanks,

jb