[gentoo-user] reiserfsck failing.

2009-08-14 Thread William Kenworthy
I am trying increase a large reiserfs partition - from ~680GB to ~1.6TB - the lvm part has worked as has resize_reiserfs, when trying to do a final reiserfsck it hangs - always on a different file but in a simlar directory. The kernel doesnt have large file support, but I thinks thats for over

Re: [gentoo-user] reiserfsck failing.

2009-08-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 14 August 2009 13:36:31 William Kenworthy wrote: I am trying increase a large reiserfs partition - from ~680GB to ~1.6TB - the lvm part has worked as has resize_reiserfs, when trying to do a final reiserfsck it hangs - always on a different file but in a simlar directory. The

Re: [gentoo-user] reiserfsck failing.

2009-08-14 Thread William Kenworthy
On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 13:38 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 14 August 2009 13:36:31 William Kenworthy wrote: I am trying increase a large reiserfs partition - from ~680GB to ~1.6TB - the lvm part has worked as has resize_reiserfs, when trying to do a final reiserfsck it hangs -

Re: [gentoo-user] reiserfsck failing.

2009-08-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:02:53 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: Nothing critical stored there - mythtv recordings, Don't the MythTV folks advise against using ReiserFS for recordings? They recommend XFS. -- Neil Bothwick Several errant electrons jumped when they shouldn't have at a place they

Re: [gentoo-user] reiserfsck failing.

2009-08-14 Thread William Kenworthy
On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 13:10 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:02:53 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: Nothing critical stored there - mythtv recordings, Don't the MythTV folks advise against using ReiserFS for recordings? They recommend XFS. They do - as I discovered

Re: [gentoo-user] reiserfsck failing.

2009-08-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 14 August 2009 14:27:09 William Kenworthy wrote: That being said, it would be nice to separate the recordings and backups though one large partition makes for easier management. And there is the fact that some maintenance patches to reiserfs mean I cant use kernels 2.6.29-30

Re: [gentoo-user] reiserfsck failing.

2009-08-14 Thread William Kenworthy
On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 14:37 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 14 August 2009 14:27:09 William Kenworthy wrote: That being said, it would be nice to separate the recordings and backups though one large partition makes for easier management. And there is the fact that some maintenance

Re: [gentoo-user] reiserfsck failing.

2009-08-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 14 August 2009 14:47:26 William Kenworthy wrote: On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 14:37 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 14 August 2009 14:27:09 William Kenworthy wrote: That being said, it would be nice to separate the recordings and backups though one large partition makes for