OK, quick question - how can I tell what's installed?  Moreover - what's
the command to see which partitions are using which file systems?

Thanks - sorry to be such a noob.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Terry Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 4:27 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Which journalized filesystem should I use in MDK
9.0


Ditto Damians remarks. It's a fairly subjective choice with lots of
strongly held opinions.

I use a number of different file systems on a number of distributions.

RH7.3: ext2 for boot and ext3 for everything else. Never any problems
can convert ext2 to ext3 (which is a journaling fs) non-destructively.
My subjective impression is that it's slower than the two other
journaling sytems I describe below.

Mandrake 8.2: Reiser and ext2. I did have a filecorruption problem a
long time ago with the reiser fs but it was fixed without any lost data
by reiserfsck.

Gentoo 1.2: ext2 (for boot) and XFS. Gentoo is very negative about
Reiser and offers kernel source optimized for XFS. So I went that route.
No problems to date (about 2 months for my main system). Seems about as
quick as Reiser. The problem is that RH 7.3 doesn't support XFS and so I
can't mount my XFS partitions under RH (but I can mount RH under gentoo
which is generally how I'm running).

YMMV.

Terry Smith
Cape Cod USA

On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 23:26, Damian G wrote:
> On 27 Sep 2002 21:50:20 -0500
> Jim Fazio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > List,
> >     Does any have any preferences to which journalized filesystem I 
> > should use in MDK 9.0.  I am assuming there is still three to choose

> > from.  I'm trying to research which is "best", but only finding 
> > older material. Does anyone have a preference? Why?  Which 
> > filesystem is the default now?  I want to map out my choices before 
> > I get there.
> > 
> > TIA,
> > Jim F
> 
> well, this is usually something like "which is better KDE or Gnome" 
> however, for what i know, all of them work quite well, ReiserFS is 
> supposed to be the fastest, however i notice little or no difference, 
> and it is the only one that has ever crapped out on me -- after 20 or 
> so consecutive unclean shutdowns -- some PAM files broke and the 
> installation started refusing all logins, so i had to reinstall on 
> that machine.
> 
> And, i've heard wonders about XFS. it is regarded as the best by many 
> people, and it probably is the one i'll attempt to break next :o)
> 
> Damian
> --
> boot into windows?
> what has smashing glass with footwear got to do with Operating
systems?
> 
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