installing to reiser4 partition doesn't seem to work

[kerinin]

I ran espresso, created a 20G partition on my hard drive, selected the swap space from my existing Ubuntu install for swap space and the new reiser4 partition for /, clicked 'next', and was given an error message saying 'no root filesystem' (i don't have the exact text written down).

I don't know if this is specific to reiser4.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Sorry, reiser4 is unsupported. We should probably rip it out of gparted in installer mode.

[Jeff Fortin Tam (kiddo)]

Colin, is ReiserFS (reiser v3) supported? I sure hope so, because the "normal" installer does it without any problems. I have tried to use reiserFS with ubuntu's graphical partitionner and it gives the same problem as kerinin mentionned, it complains about a missing /, so I guess that gparted did not actually format the drive like it was supposed to?

Now, here's some news: it will work, if you partition in reiserfs using the text-mode installer, and just drop the data in there with the graphical installer (manual partitionning, without changing anything). This works even if you tick the "reformat" checkbox.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Could you please keep problems with reiserfs in a separate bug? They're distinct from this one even if they look similar, because reiserfs is supposed to be supported and, unlike reiser4, has code in partman to support it.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

gparted (0.1-0ubuntu6) dapper; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/installer-mode.patch:
    - Disable reiser4 in installer mode, since partman doesn't support it
      yet (closes: Malone #32075).
    - Change the toolbar style to icons-beside-text in installer mode and
      mark the new toolbutton as important (closes: Malone #42723).
  * debian/patches/ext3-before-ext2.patch:
    - Default to ext3 rather than ext2 (closes: Malone #40586).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Wed, 17 May 2006 19:30:53 +0100