Mike Leone on Sun, 1 Dec 2002 01:50:06 -0500


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


Bill Jonas (bill@billjonas.com) had this to say on 11/30/02 at 18:09: 
> 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?

Positive. Did not see an option for a filesystem, unless I used the "bf24"
floppy set.

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