On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jul 2000 at 17:37, Juan Miguel Cacho wrote:
> >I think, by tools he means things like e2fsck, etc.
>
> Yes, I meant that. I also (stupidly) meant things like mount. With my
> experience with ReiserFS, the kernel patch includes the requirements to
> build mkreiserfs, reiserfsck and other required tools. Mount talks to the
> kernel, so if the kernel supports a particular filetype, mount will too.
> I'm using ReiserFS now, and I'm very happy with it, except that I don't
> use it on my root partition so that (1) I can use my RedHat 6.2 CD as a
> boot disk and still be able to access my root partition without a
> ReiserFS-enabled kernel, and (2) things mess up with RedHat mounting the
> root filesystem readonly first, then attempting to remount it later as
> read-write.
See? If you used Mandrake 7.1, you can boot of CD-1, and type 'rescue', and
you'll be shoved into a rescue environment which has the correct tools to fix
resier/ext2 filesystems... That's one less thing to worry about... \8)
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