qtparted / mkreiserfs question

Ken Moffat kmoffat
Sat Nov 27 22:18:11 PST 2004


Alma J Wetzker wrote:

>
> 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
>

Thanks.
Since running mkreiserfs on these partitions they seem to be functioning 
fine. Anyone know if QTParted does this when creating reiserfs partitions?


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