Re: [PLUG] [debian question] Using journaling fs with woody install

[Bill Jonas <bill@billjonas.com>]

On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 11:02:21AM -0500, Mike Leone wrote:
> I'm trying to install woody (aka Debian v3). Here's the thing - the disk I'm
> using already has ext2 and ReiserFS partitions. I figured I'd just
> initialize the partition (to clear it), and then mount it. But when I tell
> it to initialize a Linux partition, it initializes it as ext2 ... even tho
> fdisk shows it's type as ReiserFS, during the "Partition a hard disk" phase. :-)

Hmm.  Every woody install that I've done has given me the choice of
which filesystem to use.  It's let me pick between *at least* ext2 and
ext3, and I'm fairly sure that ReiserFS was included in the list of
options as well.  Are you certain you're not just missing it somehow?

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