Hey Joshua, No you didn't do anything wrong.
The tooling is not there yet. It is actually looking to do it on partition 2 because that is where ext2 is on the official Hurd image. The tooling ain't ready for the real partition.I apologize for recommending it to you! It's the morning here where I am and I'm at my work, but by evening I hope to have better tooling to make this easy. Thanks for trying once again, And thanks for your patience! Milos On Thu, Aug 14, 2025, 6:19 AM Joshua Branson <jbra...@dismail.de> wrote: > Milos Nikic <nikic.mi...@gmail.com> writes: > > > Hi Diego and Joshua > > > > @Joshua > > Thanks! Great to hear you shrank /home successfully. > > I got to say I never even tried on real hardware so thanks for trying! I > also never tried it on a separate mount :). Im curious > > of the results you will have. > > > > The script should still work whether its the image or real hardware: > > On real hardware one can use something like: > > sudo ./contrib/journaling/journal-hint2.sh /dev/sdXY on > > > > A couple safety notes for running the hint script on real hardware: > > - Please run it on the partition device (e.g., /dev/sdXY), not on the > whole disk. > > - Do not write the hint while the filesystem is mounted read-write. ext2 > caches the superblock; writing it raw while mounted > > can be lost or cause inconsistency. > > > > For /home (assuming it’s a separate ext2 partition): > > 0) make a backup if you can > > 1) unmount /home (close apps first) > > sudo umount /home > > This worked just fine. `mount` showed that only / was mounted. > > > 2) ensure clean state > > sudo e2fsck -f /dev/sdXY > > This also worked just fine. > > > 3) write the journaling hint (device instead of .img) > > sudo ./contrib/journaling/journal-hint2.sh /dev/sdXY on > > cat /etc/fstab > # /etc/fstab: static file system information. > # > # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> > /dev/hd0s1 / ext2 defaults 0 1 > /dev/hd0s6 /home ext2 defaults 0 2 > /dev/hd0s5 none swap sw 0 0 > # /dev/hd2 /media/cdrom0 iso9660 noauto 0 0 > # /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,noauto 0 0 > > # ./contrib/journaling/journal-hint2.sh /dev/sd0s6 on > > This is where I got stuck. When I ran the above command, I got this > error message: > > [ERROR] could not find partition 2 in fdisk output > > What did I do wrong? > > -- > > Joshua Branson > Sent from the Hurd >
