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AR15.COM
9/3/2008 3:03:44 PM EDT
Ok, I'm getting ready to format one of the old hard drives in my computer so I can install ubuntu on it and boot from that drive when I want to run linux.

What file system should I use and how do I go about doing it?
9/3/2008 3:41:20 PM EDT
[#1]
The installer will walk you through that. For a desktop machine, there is very little reason to use anything but ext3.

m
9/3/2008 7:23:04 PM EDT
[#2]
ReiserFS
9/3/2008 8:28:23 PM EDT
[#3]
blarg.  I can't get it installed.  It keeps getting stuck at 73% for some weird reason.

I know its not a bad cd as I used it successfully to install ubuntu onto a different computer.

my system is

asus a7n8x mb
athlon xp 2600+
1gb of pc 3200 ram

eta : NM.  Finally got it to install from the livecd using the "failsafe" boot option.
9/4/2008 5:06:12 AM EDT
[#4]

Quoted:
ReiserFS


Shame that a smart guy did something dumb like Hans Reiser did.


I use ext3 though, it is the default on Redhat and I think Fedora so I just stick with that.
9/4/2008 7:54:40 PM EDT
[#5]

Quoted:
The installer will walk you through that. For a desktop machine, there is very little reason to use anything but ext3.

m


Yep.

I used reiserfs in my slackware installs, just to be different.  I honestly couldn't tell a difference between the two.