qtparted / mkreiserfs question

[Ken Moffat]

Michael Hipp wrote:

> Ken Moffat wrote:
>
>  > Also, having just purchased Partition Magic I find it does not do
>
>> reiserfs partitions, being limited to ext2 and ext3. Ach! I should do 
>> better research. Thus the qtparted question....
>
>
> The partition tool I use, DriveWorks, doesn't know about anything 
> beyond ext2 and swap, so I just make all Linux partitions ext2 and 
> then let the distro installer do the formatting. Seems to work fine.
>
> Michael
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I do the same, but I have a couple of partitions I am not installing on; 
just using them for storage, and I was getting errors when trying to 
copy large file to them. I ran mkreiserfs on them, but also tried the 
copying from a different distro, and it worked, but I'm not sure which 
work around worked! :-)

-- 
Ken