*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 42994 ***
** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 42994
No option to change an existing partition filesystem to ReiserFS in the new
Espresso installer
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kubuntu installer: partitioner doesn't allow reiserfs and so on
https://launchpad.net/bugs/49826
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 de
** Changed in: Ubuntu
Sourcepackagename: None => ubiquity
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kubuntu installer: partitioner doesn't allow reiserfs and so on
https://launchpad.net/bugs/49826
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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
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 filesys
