On Wednesday 29 November 2000 15:11, you wrote: > > Hi, > > Last week I converted one of my partitions to use reiserfs. I'm on 7.1 and > it doesn't have... errrr... "stadard support" for reiserfs. So I'm > wondering, besides changing the fstab to use reiserfs, what elle needs to > be done? Specifically, how to I configure the equivalent of fsck'ing on > resiser? I had crash and when I rebooted, I got a notice that my reiser > partition couldn't be fsck'd. I temporarily removed the checdks in fstab > but I'm pretty sure there's more to it than that. > > Thanks, > > L Errrr rpm -q reiserfs-utils to make sure it is there Then for the subject partition, assuming you have backed up the data, mkfs -t reiser /dev/partition_name where partition name is something like hda7 or sdb4 or whatever your desired reiser partiton should be. As long as you have made noi changes, the chances are excellent that your ext2 data is still on the partition in ext2 filesystem format and you can still copy it off by identifying the partition as ext2 in /etc/fstab. Yes, you must reformat the partition at this point to make the conversion, then restore the data. There is no utility (nor is one likely for a while) to convert ext2 to reiser _in-place_. Both filesystems scatter blocks over the disk space available and then fill the gaps with locator information and (mostly unfragmented) files, but the format of this locator information and the algorithms for storage are very different. There is a primer on ext2 and reiser on the archives to this list. Search on the string "don't use defrag". fsck of reiser is unbelievable. It is done before you get your finger off the enter key. Civileme
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