Forum .LRN Q&A: ReiserFS and the dotLRN/Knoppix CD

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1: ReiserFS and the dotLRN/Knoppix CD
Posted by julie ellis on 10/27/05 04:07 AM
With advance thanks for any help that comes ... here's my situation.

When I try to boot from the dotLRN CD from e-lane, things go along fine until it tries to use some hard drive space. Says that more free space is needed in Linux partitions.

I have a new (to me) Linux system that someone else set up.
It appears to have two partitions: a boot partition of type ext3, and one really big one of type ReiserFS, the journaling file system. Apparently the Knoppix CD can't use the c. 65 GB available in the reiserfs partition to get .LRN going.

I suppose I could blow the disk away, repartition, reinstall Linux etc etc, but that seems an extreme way to just try out .LRN.

Just in case it's not obvious, I'm a relative newbie in LinuxLand. Just enough knowledge to be dangerous to myself. So please, in something close to normal English, could someone please send me some suggestions?

Thanks!
Julie Ellis
University of Southern Maine

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2: Re: ReiserFS and the dotLRN/Knoppix CD (response to 1)
Posted by Patrick Giagnocavo on 10/27/05 04:36 AM
Most likely the kernel on the Knoppix CD does not understand the ReiserFS filesystem and thus cannot use it. You may be able to load the reiserfs kernel module and restart the setup, but I am not sure. A command like (as the root user) "insmod reiserfs" or something similar might work.

Reiserfs is not as popular as the other filesystems, which is probably why it is not turned on by default.