On Monday September 1 2003 09:19 pm, Guy Rouillier wrote:
> System Commander trashed my hard disk when I attempted to resize
> my Win2K NTFS partition, so I'm forced to reinstall everything,
> including Linux on that same drive. This time around, I decided
> to try out ReiserFS as my root file system. During setup, I
> configured boot options, but after doing so, the installation
> program never returned. I rebooted and used drakxconf to install
> my X server. When I start up X in KDE, it starts up very slowly,
> and actually never puts up the desktop icons. The cursor remains
> a clock for several *minutes*, but the system is not locked. I
> can log off of KDE (back to the boot up terminal session) without
> a problem. If I start up gnome, it starts up okay, including all
> the desktop icons. But when I try to log off, it won't. I try to
> log off about 5 times in a row. Eventually, something will get
> it to put up the log off dialog.
>
> Could this be ReiserFS doing this? Should I switch back to ext2?
> I played around with XFS in a different installation on this
> same hardware, and it didn't appear to have any issues (other
> than the fact that it defaults to read-only.) Thanks for all
> advice.
I'd try another install. This time make /boot a separate
partition, ext3. Make your other partitions ReiserFS. I've been
usin ReiserFS since 7.2 beta's never a problem. If you opt for
XFS, still make an ext3 /boot partition, 20 to 50 mb.
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