kubuntu installer: partitioner doesn't allow reiserfs and so on

[andreasw]

Hi,

the kubuntu partitioner only allows ext2 and ext3 als linux file systems.

best regards

Andy

[David Taylor (me-davidandrewtaylor)]

Hmmm I had the same problem, in the past I have had a much better experience with ReiserFS than the more traditional filesystems such as ext2 and ext3 (infact even the relatively new JFS didn't take long before becoming corrupt). So when coming to install I wanted to use the most dependable filesystem ReiserFS, I originally used the new Live CD installer but the partitioning tool did not allow one to format in to ReiserFS and I really do not know why as it is in the kernel so I had to use the text based installer instead.

The only thing that concerns me is that this may have been done purposefully and in which case I shall have to change distributions if there is no work around (like the one I had to use for Dapper) in future releases.

[David Taylor (me-davidandrewtaylor)]

This has carried on through to Edgy although thankfully the text based installer still is capable installing with a full selection of file systems.

incidentally Reiserfs should be added as it appears to be the second most popular file system according to this recent pole: http://linux.inet.hr/poll_filesystem.html

[J. Pablo Fernández (pupeno)]

I am also a user of ReiserFS that is very disappointed at the state of the installer regarding ReiserFS. In Dapper, it was possible to workaround it by creating the partitions by hand. In Edgy that is not even possible (it would complaint about not having a root filesystem even when there's a defined root filesystem, only that it is an already created and formated ReiserFS).
I had to install with the alternate CD, that worked.
I've found this bugs to be related (maybe all the same bug: support ReiserFS please): 42994, 44566, 49826.
Thank you.