wine users - Nov 2001 - Is it possible to use wine with a journaling filesystem?

Hi there,

I installed my mandrake linux 8.1 with reiserfs. I would like to use wine
without my windows partition. Now I see the following text in the wine
man-page:
---
format: Filesystem=<fstype>
default: "win95"
Used to specify the type of the file system Wine should emulate on a given
directory structure/underlying file system.
Supported types are "msdos" (or "fat"), "win95"
(or "vfat"), "unix".
Recommended:

  "win95" for ext2fs, VFAT and FAT32

  "msdos" for FAT16 (ugly)
---
Do I have to use ext2? Isn't it possible to use reiserfs? May I perhaps
use ext3?

thanks
HB

On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Hans-Bernhard wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I installed my mandrake linux 8.1 with reiserfs. I would like to use wine
> without my windows partition. Now I see the following text in the wine
> man-page:
> ---
> format: Filesystem=<fstype>
> default: "win95"
> Used to specify the type of the file system Wine should emulate on a given
directory structure/underlying file system.
> Supported types are "msdos" (or "fat"),
"win95" (or "vfat"), "unix".
> Recommended:
>
>   "win95" for ext2fs, VFAT and FAT32
>
>   "msdos" for FAT16 (ugly)
> ---
> Do I have to use ext2? Isn't it possible to use reiserfs? May I perhaps
> use ext3?
>
> thanks
> HB
Any filesystem type the host OS (linux, in this case) can mount, wine
can use.  "win95" refers to the fs behavior wine presents to the
windows
app.  Wine is a *NIX application program.  It does't really _care_ about
the fstype.  Use minix, umsdos, vfat, ext2, ext, ext3, reiserfs,
isofs, nfs,... just as you like.  Here you just tell wine whether you
want filenames a windows app can use limited to 8.3 ("msdos") or not
("win95").

Lawson
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On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 23:08:31 +0100, "Hans-Bernhard"
<hb.truetken@htp-tel.de> wrote:

<snip>
>Do I have to use ext2? Isn't it possible to use reiserfs? May I perhaps
>use ext3?
The Wine doc has been written when ext2fs was the only file system
available with Windows. I use Wine with a reiserfs partition
under Mandrake 8.0 without problem.

Gerard

Hans-Bernhard wrote:
> Do I have to use ext2? Isn't it possible to use reiserfs? May I perhaps
> use ext3?
You may use Wine with any underlying filesystem, but for best results you
should specify "win95" or "vfat" in the wine configuration
file. This is not
the underlying filesystem type, rather it is the way Wine presents the
filesystem to Windows applications. Specifying "unix" may work but is
likely
to confuse some Windows programs, which have the attitude that
"Windows" is
the same as "wInDoWs" :-)

- Daniel

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