On 9/29/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Harry Putnam</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:reader@newsguy.com">reader@newsguy.com</a>&gt; wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I'm not a power user or even a very knowledgable user.&nbsp;&nbsp;But am<br>something of a long time user, and since `96, I've used ext2 or 3<br>exclusively. I don't recall a single incident of losing or corrupting<br>files that was attributable to ext[23].
<br><br>I'd heard reiserfs was `better' but apparently the things its better<br>at aren't things I use or notice.</blockquote><div><br>
Do you need speed? <br>
What about space free? reiserfs is quite good! I experimented a ~1G
reduction from having the same data in a ext3 partition to a reiserfs!!<br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Is it possible to revert to ext3 from single boot mode or mounted from<br>a live cd&nbsp;&nbsp;without a lot of hassles?
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You can create a tarball of your current system, put it in temporary
place (other partition, removable media, etc), change the partition
type from reiserfs to ext3 and then deploy your system in the brand new
partition.<br>
</div><br></div>HTH,<br>
Fernando<br>