Hi I have two harddisks one 80 GB and one 40 and i have win 2000, xp, me, xp sp2, suse 9.3 reiserfs.
Do you think guys that reiserfs best suits me, and in case not what FS do you recommend me?
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Hi I have two harddisks one 80 GB and one 40 and i have win 2000, xp, me, xp sp2, suse 9.3 reiserfs.
Do you think guys that reiserfs best suits me, and in case not what FS do you recommend me?
--thanks
This is the same as asking "Should I learn how to take a car apart?" IT DEPENDS... You seem very new so I'd say leave it. ReiserFS is a journaling FS meaning if the power goes out or you hit the power button you won't lose things so easily.
I highly recommend that you read the books that SUSE 9.3 comes with. If you didn't pay for it, buy a copy of SUSE, and read the books.
If you don't have money, look in the screen and find a little Red and White ringed life raft looking symbol with a lizard face (In KDE) and click on it. It's on the bottom left portion of the screen. Click, read.
OK, but before i installed reiserfs i installed fedora on a ext2 fs and it was fine, later i bought suse 9.3 and used reiserfs because i heard its best for smaller hdd and its new, but it corrupted all my harddisk! I cannot resize and/or remove , format partitions in the harddisk.
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Gore is the expert here, and I am a mere apprentice :)
If you want to run XP and 2000 I would suggest that you have an NTFS partition.
Why do you want Win ME? If it is for academic/study purposes then I would suggest that Win98SE is a better option. You will need a FAT32 partition for that.
If you are studying/comparing operating systems, then I believe that you should use their preferred file system to get valid results.
Just my thoughts
:)
How did it corrupt your HD? resizing and things like that with Reiser take some work because it wasn't designed to be moved around a lot. You can of course easily remove and format, see reiserFS is a lot different from Ext2 and Ext3.
Ext2 is the old Linux File System. It'd old, and for the most part stable. But it's not a journaling system. So if the power goes out or the power is shut off without shutting down, you can't get back any data you lose. Ext3 is the same thing but journaled. If the power goes out it can replay the journal.
ReiserFS is a whole new idea all the way. It's what I use on every box here except the 3 machines that have Windows, which I use NTFS on, and my BSD boxes use BSDFFS.
Even both my slackware machines are using ReiserFS. For most home users and even server tasks, it's WAY faster than Ext3, and the journal itself seems to be all around better. I know, I've tested it, one of my slackware machines, I don't shut it down, I just hit the power button. So far no problems, and that machine has TWO HDs, with TWO mount points. If I'd used Ext file systems I'd be reinstalling.
Now why would you want to remove any file system? You don't need to resize, as that has more to do with good planning than technical know how. You should probably try to do something like this:
When you prepair to install an OS, write down what it is you want it to do, what file systems you want to make, where, and how big. This way you don't need to resize. And any free space, make that a Fat16 File System. This way if you need to add space to another OS you can just use that and format it as NTFS or Reiser or whatever.
Now reply here and tell me how exactly it corrupted.... I'd like to hear that one.
To delete partitions like for example if you wnated to remove an OS.... That's simply, use YAST, or if you're doing it in Windows use Partition Magic, or if you are in Linux and don't have X Loaded, just use cfdisk.
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Originally posted here by DutchGeek
Hi I have two harddisks one 80 GB and one 40 and i have win 2000, xp, me, xp sp2, suse 9.3 reiserfs.
Do you think guys that reiserfs best suits me, and in case not what FS do you recommend me?
--thanks
I don't get the questions... is there a way that you can explain this better? I'll be glad to help but I'm afraid that I don't quite get what you are trying to say.
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as Nihil said... GORE is expert on this... :)
nihil: i know that ntfs is better than fat32, space saving etc. but i chose fat32 to have read and write abilities on it in linux. and im not getting any use of win Me it`s corrupted and i dont work on it, but i cant uninstall it because the harddisk is corrupted.
gore: i mean that when i open up partition magic it says that all the 40 GB hdd is BAD, no abilities to resize and/or remove or anything or even see the partitions, although im now using the harddisk for linux and win xp and no prob. the only thing is i cant is resize and/or remove paritions or i`ll have to remove all partitions and start from scratch. I want to increase size of linux partition (6GB only) and remove some empty partitions used for backup
@tt!tud3: my question is that im having problem in resize and/or remove partitions on the 40GB one although no "feeled" problems during using it, and whether reiserfs is the problem.
I bet you didn't read the partition magic book. Because it points out somewhere in there that anything you use other than Ext2 and maybe Ext3 won't allow it to move things. Your best bet is probably to do a complete back up, reformat and reinstall everything and mark this one up to lessons learned.
I think we need to know Exactly what you want to do.
What Partitions do you have that you don't want anymore?
What OS or OSs do you want to keep?
gore: i read the partition magic book and it said that it doesnt support reisrfs, but does that mean that it considers the whole harddisk BAD? And even when i use the partitioner that came with suse it says that it cannot resize and/or remove any partitions on that harddisk (except to start from scratch), what do you think is the reason?
@tt!tud3: what excactly i have is: storage1, storage2, systemxp, system2000 on 80 GB hdd, C (full), D(full), P(empty partitions used in past for backup), root (/), swap on 40GB hdd. I want to remove P partition, and increase size of root partition.
-pease help me to find a way to do it without whiping the whole hd
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I don't think I've ever heard of someone resizing reiserFS or moving it. And yea Partition Magic would say that. As I said before, you're probably going to have to start from scratch because you're using more than one HD with 3 OSs and the time it would take to even attempt to move all this around.... You'd most likely lose most of the data on them. Even I've never attempted that. Not that I had a reason, I'd usually plan the install out more.
From the looks of it you have the second HD with something but "P" on it. You could possibly use cfdisk /dev/hdb1 or whatever you have it set up as to create partitions on that drive and mount them under Linux so it can use the new space on there.
For example:
One box here has two HDs. I installed Linux and when the second HD was installed, I just opened up cfdisk and formatted that drive how I wanted it partitioned, and them mounted it as /home so i could store things on it. You can mount it however you want but there is a limit hardware wise to how many primary partitions you can use on one computer per HD.
As I have mentioned, Gore is the expert. What I do know is that I have seen a fair number of people screw up with partition magic, and that is just in a Windows environment :eek:
I would agree with Gore's suggestion and back up and start again. Even if you got it going by some miracle, you could have no confidence in its stability, which I would have thought was one of the major selling points of Linux?
:)
nice idea to mount the backup as /home now i have a way more room for files and even programs, i`d install them in /home/bin. And what about the files who are already in /home?
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Well, you could create more than /home. See you can create mount points however you like. As an example, when I set up a server, I don't want any fragmentation (Even though this RARELY occurs) but I don't want to risk that on partitions where servers are using them, so I create a seperate mount point for each part of the system so that fragmentation on something like /var won't blled over to another one where I want speed.
You could do something like this and make one for /home and another for /usr if you wanted more room for programs. It's really up to you. With Windows you're generally stuck with a partition and a "file" for swap space, in Unix, swap is seperate so fragmentation isn't bleeding into it, and you can mount and unmount file systems with one command, no reboots. Another reason I prefer the Unix way of doing something.
okay, im going to mount P as /home formatting it as reiser and mounting it as/home, but a warning says:
warning you have changed the FSID of an existing partition, in some cases this could lead to serious consequenses especially if you change the FSID of a partition belonging to another operating system, only proceed if you know exactly what you are doing.
can i proceed?
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Think it's time you invest in a book on Linux and some HOWTOs on partitioning. Seriously it's going to help you out.
A lot of times people forget to defrag their windows system and end up cutting the linux partition off too short leaving lost files out in a non existance space. Windows just goes, WTF, shits it's pants and runs into the closet.Quote:
How did it corrupt your HD?