On Wed, 4 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 4 Apr, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > First time I heared about this... Can anyone give me some basic info?
> >
> > How do I change the Ext2 FS to riser FS? I am using Mandrake 7.2.
> >
>
> You must mean Reiser FS. It's basically a journaling FS with a novel
> design that's supposed to make things faster. You need a kernel patch
> if you have a 2.2.x kernel (it's already present in 2.4.1 and later
> kernels), and the tools. Go visit http://www.reiserfs.org/ for more
> details.
>
> Oh, and there's no way at present to nondestructively convert Ext2
> partitions into reiserfs. I've asked this before.
Mandrake 7.2's kernel comes with reiserfs built in. All you need to do is
select reiserfs as the FS type when you are partitioning your hard disk
(ext2 is still the default, so you need to change the type to reiserfs so
that the mdk installer will use reiser for your file systems).
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