This reiser thingie....

[willk]

Can anyone point me to a good "how to" or site that will help me understand and get this set up.
btw...slack 7.1 ; 2.4.3 ; snand alone system...nothing exotic or unusual.

[mjb0314]

This is the main site for reiserfs.
It's got pretty good instructions on how to set it up.
http://www.namesys.com/

HTH

[willk]

...been there...the documentaion IS pretty good...but ya gotta understand I am a moron.

...guess what I need is "REISERFS FOR MORONS"...

[PLBlaze]

Hehe, as the MAN(Linus) says "If you don't know what does it do, then you don't need it" :D ... but seriously have you checked other howtos,faqu's or guides?I'm sure the filesystems guide on linuxdoc.org would apply too in your case.Isn't there a reiserfs NHF here?I think it is,might check it out.Lastly there's been many threads about reiserfs and others on these forums,search for them.Hope this helps.

[The King Ant]

First off you need Reiserfs support in your kernel. Depending on your distribution, you'll probably have to compile it yourself. You'll also need the Reiserfs tools. You can get them from the Reiserfs page mentioned above.

Basically you'll have to partition your hard drive how you want it. I like using cfdisk, but that's up to you. Then you have to format each partition as a Reiserfs filesystem using the "mkreiserfs" tool. The command will be something like "mkreiserfs /dev/hdaXX" where the XX is the partition number.

Now, how to install a new system on Reiser partitions? If your distro doesn't support it, I guess you'd have to do a minimal install on some temporary ext2 partitions, then compile a recent kernel, then make your real Reiserfs partitions, and then copy everything over.

[Molecule Man]

http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade.html should prove helpful as well.