qtparted / mkreiserfs question

[Alma J Wetzker]

Ken Moffat wrote:
> 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
> 
> 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! :-)
> 

AFAIK, when you run mkreiserfs on a partition, it regenerates all the fs 
bookkeeping data so you have a clean fs.  At that point, any distro will be 
able to use that partition because it has a working, clean fs on it.

 From the old dos days, you would run fdisk to setup partitions and then you 
would format the partition to lay down a file system.  mk*fs is the equivalent 
to the format step.

     -- Alma