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pogeymanz

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[solved]Oops. Stuck at "partition harddrive" Need quick help...

I want to try other filesystem types beside ext. I don't see any options on the Arch install for JFS or ReiserFS. So I thought I would do the partitioning with something else. So I popped in my Puppy Live CD and in gparted all the formats besides ext, fat and swap are greyed out. What's up with that? How do I use other filesystems?

Last edited by pogeymanz (2008-06-05 04:08:25)

bender02

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Re: [solved]Oops. Stuck at "partition harddrive" Need quick help...

(G)parted are for partitioning - that has nothing to do with what filesystem will be actually put onto the partitions. I guess in the installer the "format" part is what you're looking for. I'm about 1/2 positive that Arch installer lets you choose the filesystem, at least jfs and xfs except for ext2/3. You just need to proceed beyond partitioning.

EDIT: Another piece of information is that partitions have "types", which is quite meaningless thing, but it's there. The most common types are "linux", "linux swap", "fat", "ntfs" (and there are many others). This is what a partitioning program lets you set. Again, this has no influence whatsoever on what filesystem you put on.

EDIT2: Thinking some more gives that maybe gparted even lets you format partitions - but it might as well be that the formatting tools for jfs, xfs and reiserfs are not included on your puppy cd, hence gparted doesn't let you format a partition with those.

Last edited by bender02 (2008-06-05 03:50:38)

pogeymanz

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Re: [solved]Oops. Stuck at "partition harddrive" Need quick help...

Oh gee. Don't I feel silly. Thank you for the quick reply. I'll keep going and see what I can do.

Yup. It worked just fine. I thought that "type" was just cfdisk's way of saying filesystem. Oh boy...:/

Last edited by pogeymanz (2008-06-05 04:07:58)

jacko

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Re: [solved]Oops. Stuck at "partition harddrive" Need quick help...

is it not where u type in

mke2fs

that tells what fs u have on the HD?

if u want xfs or reiser, try the commands for those fs formats. www.google.com

pogeymanz

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Re: [solved]Oops. Stuck at "partition harddrive" Need quick help...

EDIT2: Thinking some more gives that maybe gparted even lets you format partitions - but it might as well be that the formatting tools for jfs, xfs and reiserfs are not included on your puppy cd, hence gparted doesn't let you format a partition with those.

I think that's exactly the case. I always used gparted to format because I always just had ext3 and swap.