On Friday 13 July 2001 13:32, Alan Smith wrote:
> Hi All
> My mdk8.0 system is set up using the e2fs file system mainly because i
> thougth I read somewhere that reiserfs could not read the windows
> partition/disk. I do have occasional power failures however and the
> reiserfs sys would be more stable for me to use.
No, it's windows that can't read reiserfs partitions (or ext2 for that
matter). But reiserfs doesn't have to read windows partitions - there is a
fat32 driver to do that. IIUTC, anyway.
> If the reisefs file sys can read the windows partition is it possible to
> set up my sys using the reiserfs file system but keeping /home as e2fs as I
> do not have adequate means of saving the /home partition and copying it's
> contents to a new reiserfs /home partition.
FWIW:
I set mine up the other way round, with /home on reiserfs since that is where
a lot of writing and deleting takes place, /tmp on a separate little ext2
partition and everyting else in / on ext2 as well. I'm not sure if this has
been fixed yet, but a while back the word on the street was that at least
/boot should NOT be reiserfs.
I backup my data from both ext and reiserfs quite easily to a FAT32 partition
on another disk, so I think perhaps your fears are unfounded.
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