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Free Agent: The Latest Free Linux (PC World)

Posted Sep 27, 2006 19:14 UTC (Wed) by horen (subscriber, #2514)
In reply to: Free Agent: The Latest Free Linux (PC World) by k8to
Parent article: Free Agent: The Latest Free Linux (PC World)

"Do you mean it simply set the system up with a filesystem other than the one you explicitly selected? That's pretty impressive."

I had an already-partitioned 40GB drive in my laptop: 1GB swap, 8GB OS, and the rest for my home directory, builds, etc. (mounted on /usr/local). Swap was, of course 0x82, and the others 0x83.

I like journalled filesystems, so when I ran mke2fs on the 0x83 partitions, I did so with the "-j" flag, making them ext3, rather than the default ext2.

But I don't know "jack" about ReiserFS, and had no intention of changing horses mid-stream. Irksome, and more than a little bit Micro$oft-ish. But the look-and-feel of Freespire is very good.

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Free Agent: The Latest Free Linux (PC World)

Posted Sep 28, 2006 4:16 UTC (Thu) by AJWM (subscriber, #15888) [Link]

> But I don't know "jack" about ReiserFS, and had no intention of changing horses mid-stream.

Ditto. SUSE defaults to Reiser but I always change it to ext3 when doing an install. At least it listens to me.

Having once repaired by hand a Unix filesystem that I'd done something colossally stupid to, (fortunately it was only a 10MB drive, this was a long time ago) I like the idea of at least having a chance at understanding how the FS has layed the bits out on the drive.