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Tails Wrote:most people using Ubuntu will use reizerfs... cause, ext3 is too slow...

Most people using Ubuntu must do alot of stuff with vast numbers of small files.
The benchmarks don't impress me enough to switch.
It's all talk and preference.
Iv'e never met anyone who noticed a difference.

I don't use Reiser anymore after an experience I had 3 or 4 years back with a power outage. For some reason the filesystem was corrupted, (not uncommon after a hard reset), and it would not boot or mount. Normally I would use Parted or Partition Magic to resize other partitions and make space to recover my data using a LiveCD. Worst problem was the only space I had available to play with was the swap.... Long story short, I lost everything after hours of trying different methods and being flamed by Slashdot nerds for using it in the first place.
Nowaday's Its more common, I could prolly use any Debian based live distro in combination with an external drive to recover the data, but I don't want to find out, as its still not supported by Parted or Partition Magic.

Is there a new offline method to repair or resize the ReiserFS filesystem?
I could see it being beneficial on my Snort box, but not if I can't recover my logs should there be a problem.

You can browse ReiserFS from windows with,YAReG or rfstool/rfsgui or Ltools.
But like I said:

BlackNinja Wrote:A FAT32 partition is by no means necessary but both Linux and Windows can read as well as write to it. There are programs for read/write access on either side but they are buggy and you will lose data.

Tails Wrote:and as Ge64 suggest on other thread, make another partition which is FAt32 or NTFS, that may be a better solution.... One of the things I don't like the ext3 driver in Windows is that you cannot hibernate your windows, otehrwsie, your modify file in Linux partition when u changed in Windows, will be lost and Linux will keep saying the system is not clean etc (at least last time I used few yrs ago), that's also why i would not recommend people to use those kind of software....

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You have to shut down Windows/Linux properly from hibernation before booting to the other, (It works both ways).
Sounds like you booted into Linux while Winblows still had your ext3 partition mounted.
Turning off hibernation/suspention is one of the first things you should do after installing Winblows/Linux in a dual boot configuration...