Cannot read partitions

[Derek Broughton]

Dotan Cohen wrote:

> On 03/10/2007, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 02/10/2007, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On a recently converted windows machine, I had three NTFS partitions in
>> > /media: /media/hda1
>> > /media/hdb1
>> > /media/hdb5
>> >
>> > After installing Ubuntu, the user could read each of these partitions
>> > (but could not write to them). /media/hda1 was the old Windows root
>> > filesystem, with no files worth saving, so today I converted it into
>> > jfs with gparted.
>>
>> Why jfs? That seems a /very/ strange choice. It's a journalling
>> filesystem type typically used with IBM OS/2. What's wrong with ext3
>> or even reiser?
> 
> I might give reiser a try, but I was under the impression that it is
> not yet supported in *buntu.

Reiser has always been supported in Ubuntu.  I just don't trust it anymore.  

I first converted to Reiser before Ubuntu was released, and my first ubuntu
install was simply an "apt-get dist-upgrade" from Debian.  My first full
install to Ubuntu used reiser for all partitions, so early installers
supported it too.
-- 
derek