Yes, ext3 is probably the way I'm going to go. I would think about XFS since its actually a pretty old filesystem (albeit new to Linux), except not being able to just use the vanilla kernel might be kind of annoying. Gentoo makes using it fairly easy though, so I dunno.
I suppose in reality I don't have any choice of whether or not I want to get another hard drive, since I'm not going to fork over the money until I very positive thats the problem. I'll find some sort of surface test or something to do before I do the new installation. I hope Gentoo 1.4_final comes out before next weekend. Sheesh, it was supposed to be out at the end of December. I've actually been using 1.4 since January. I guess it would just be nice to have the installation CD be certified stable, the installation CD being the only difference between the release candiates. There actually was a pretty big difference between 1.2 and 1.4 because of the new compiler, but I bet in the future they won't be that noticable to existing users. Anyways, going on of a tanget. We just need to get this Mosix cluster up and running and then have it cross-compile for us Gentoo users. (-: Ian Monroe http://www.monroe.nu On Sun, 23 Feb 2003, Donald J Bindner wrote: > > Sounds like you just had a round of bad luck. As for > re-installing, I would probably give it a go if it were my > computer. > > You might use a partitioning tool to remove the reiser partitions > and then recreate them. Presumably the gentoo install has a > partitioning step, where you could do that. You shouldn't have > to worry about your Windows partitions being hurt as long as you > don't touch them. > > If it goes strange a second time, I would probably try a > different filesystem. Perhaps ext2/ext3. It is the most-tested > of all the Linux filesystems. > > Don > > -- > Don Bindner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ----------------------------------------------------------------- To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -----------------------------------------------------------------
