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Do you personally need any of the additional features provided by Ext3 or ReiserFS?

I thought Ext2 was the default file system for Linux, it'll probably be the most maintained one anyway...

AFAIK Ext3 is just Ext2 with journaling capabilities....

inflater wrote:GRUB took almost 40 seconds to load the boot menu

GRUB is very slow at reading the ReiserFS transaction log, so if you reboot without shutting down it can take a while to boot up the first time.

You've reinstalled the Windows XP bootloader? If you hadn't, you could've just waited for GRUB to finish. (After GRUB had finished loading everything, the rest of the boot sequence should have run at normal speed.)

If you boot into the live CD, you should be able to run fsck on the partition (run "fsck /dev/whatever"), if you know the partition number. Then mount the partition, say to /mnt/whatever ("mkdir /mnt/whatever; mount /dev/whatever /mnt/whatever"). Then run "grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/whatever /dev/whatever", and then "umount /mnt/whatever". Then reboot.

(I haven't tested that sequence of commands, so if you get any warnings you should probably stop.)

Brynet-Inc wrote:Do you personally need any of the additional features provided by Ext3 or ReiserFS?

I like the 3x speed improvement and the capability to withstand my unreliable mobo, so Reiser it is (I even chose XFS for my new machine for similar reasons )

Brynet-Inc wrote:Do you personally need any of the additional features provided by Ext3 or ReiserFS?

Yes, most definitely. They are faster, have a much higher ability not to take damage if not shut down correctly, don't require fsck runs during normal operation, and don't take ages if a fsck is required.

I thought Ext2 was the default file system for Linux, it'll probably be the most maintained one anyway...

Virtually all the work of the last few years went into the journalling file systems. Ext2 is somewhat like FAT32 - yes it's been around for ages and everybody can do it, but NTFS still beats the crap out of it.

If you are worried about cross-platform support, use Ext3 - such a partition can be accessed from e.g. Windows using a simple Ext2 driver (without journalling capabilities in this case, of course, but the on-disk layout is identical).

Well, I have found my Mandriva installation CD that I've downloaded. So I tried to run as the live CD, and it booted, but I had to detach my modem from the USB port, because Mandriva doesnt like it. After that it would boot, and install to the disk properly (Ext3 FS). When copying modem's FW and configuring the PPPoE driver, I have managed to create a new connection, and finally, successful reboot with modem plugged in, because now Mandriva knew, where is the firmware [Ubuntu did care, but didn't freezed the whole system up **] After reboot, I have messed the KDE panel somehow, I wanted to remove something from the bar, and accidentaly, I have removed everything from it ... but I was able to get into system-settings dialog, and to locate the network connections panel. I have clicked on the START ADSL.. and nothing. Didn't work.

KDE (3.5) would look pretty in screenshots, but after 5 minutes of using it, I have got sick of the pretty anti-aliased, shaded and colorful panels. Just like Vista without 3D support (Mandriva had 3D support, but... ... bleh! i hate overactive systems! ), so I decided to reinstall Ubuntu again, this time, with ReiserFS and *more* patience when something will freeze. And no more America's Army, until I would buy a new CPU, mobo, graphics card, and brand new DDR3 RAM modules. (It's about time, my PC is from year 2003, but I do not want to trash the whole PC and buy the new one... I want just to change the components in the case )

All hail, the 2nd longest thread on OSdev.org !

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Ubuntu will ignore the error when firmware is missing, but will freeze at startup though, -> if I would launch Windows XP, and then, reboot to Ubuntu, because the modem is already initialized at Windows startup, but Ubuntu does not recognize it properly. The solution is easy, when rebooting and GRUB pops up, I would simply detach and reattach the modem, and launch Ubuntu. And it would work.

This doesn't apply when I would turn off the PC, or not launch Windows and boot directly to Linux.

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inflater

Ubuntu installed and customized, now updating to 2.6.20-16. I can't wait for Gutsy, that would be released at 18th October

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inflater

I've removed Ubuntu 7.04 few days before gutsy was released for lack of disk space, I had only 50 MB free.
Now I'm interested again, but this time I'm downloading Xubuntu 7.10. It needs 1.5GB of free space? That's pretty neat, so... here it goes: repartitioning, modem driver installing etc...

I heard that Gutsy Gibbon 7.10 was supposed to be LTS, but the LTS will come in April 2008, the Hardy Heron 8.04.

Well, I encountered a problem...

I ran Partition Magic 8.0, and tried to shrunk drive C: (NTFS) from 55.8 GB to 52 GB. I rebooted, and let the shrinking process begin. First, it tested the integrity of the drive. All working well... until it did go to 16% and...

Error 1529: Information mismatch in directory entry

The system rebooted with no damage to the drive, all was OK, but the size wasn't changed at all.
So I defragmented the drive, ran CHKDSK C: and then with /F, tried again, no luck. The same message. So I defragmented the drive again, and ran CHKDSK /F once more. No luck.

What do you think? Should I reboot into Xubuntu, run GParted and shrink in there?
Or should I run Partition Magic from boot floppies and perform the shrinking there?
I don't want to lose all data though... Yes I've made backups, but I don't want to install OS and software again...

What's your suggestion?
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inflater

I have had very good results with Gparted in the past. So I would recommend using it. There is even a live cd that simple exists to run gparted somewhere on the internet.

Yeah, everything was in order, no damage during or after the resize/install process.

me wrote:All hail, the 2nd longest thread on OSdev.org !

1st.

Anyways, do you know about some simple small 3D shooting games in Linux? Something like America's Army, but less disk-hungry and for low-end systems too... Something like CS 1.6, you know what I'm talking about

As I don't want to be like a fool that's only waiting to someone's responses, I've tried OpenArena, Tremulous, but they didn't satisfy me much

There are a lot of open source 3D games, several are based on the Quake3 engine apparently.

You should really check out sf.net, It's a good place to search...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fr ... n_shooters

You can play CS on Linux, just use Wine. Granted, it's not perfect, but it does the job (the Source engine runs reasonably well under it).

Dosbox + {Quake, Doom, Wolfenstein, ...}

Eh, sorry for reviving this one year old thread... I didn't want to create another.

There were some days, and the old Ubuntu lies on my second testbed and the PC is (physically) inaccessible, so I would like to install Ubuntu on this machine I now use (AMD athlon 64 x2 6400+).

1. I've selected to download the amd64 version (8.04 LTS). Will it bring some speed improvements instead of the 32-bit version?
2. Can I make my user account to have FULL root privileges/ENABLE the root account in GNOME? I am absolutely sure of what I type and do and when editing GRUB boot menu or accessing the main system partition, I find it useless and time consuming to "gksudo" or entering terminal, re-entering the passwords all over again... that same for installing programs. Its more worse than in Vista's "your permission to continue"...

Thanks in advance.

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inflater