On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 08:40:04PM +0200, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 13:35:27 -0500, Jeffrey Kornuta wrote: > > is it possible to use the Reiserfs file system on Debian potato? > > Yes, though it may not particularly easy to set up. > > One way to do it is to install a minimal potato system on a small partition > (which you can later reuse as the swap partition), connect that to the net, > update with the packages from > http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/kernel-24.html > (including reiserfstools), build a 2.4 kernel for it, boot that, then > mkreiserfs the regular partition(s) and clone the system onto that (using > cpio, tar or cp), then change its fstab and reconfigure your bootloader. > > Another way is to get a set of potato bootfloppies modified to support an > install onto reiserfs partitions; see > > http://freshmeat.net/search/?site=Freshmeat&q=potato+reiserfs§ion=projects > > HTH, > Ray
An easier method is to do what I've just done which is to upgrade to 2.4.9 (which doesn't build properly anyway - try compiling your own gcc if the compile dies), and then use ext3. (Of course remember to patch your kernel source first with the patches at http://www.uow.edu.au/~andrewm/linux/ext3 before compiling). Then, simply do a tune2fs -j /dev/hdXX and update /etc/fstab to ext3 and then remount. Suddenly an ext2 filesystem has become ext3! Wonderful! HTH Matthew -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND Using Debian/GNU Linux Enjoying computing It said 'Required Windows XP or better.' So I installed Linux.
