On 29 Nov, civileme wrote: > On Wednesday 29 November 2000 15:11, you wrote: >> 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 > Oh, it's there all right. > 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. > Hmmm... maybe I didn't express myself correctly. I've done all this conversion stuff. I *have* a mountable reiserfs partition which works correctly. But this weekend, my laptop froze and I had to reboot it. When it came time to sync the reiserfs partition, for some reason the system tried to use the ext2 tools and of course, sync'ing failed. I would logically expect that in such a situation, the fsck would try to use the proper reiserfs tools but that didn't happen. I'm not sure why. > There is a primer on ext2 and reiser on the archives to this list. Search on > the string "don't use defrag". > Thanks for the pointer. > fsck of reiser is unbelievable. It is done before you get your finger off > the enter key. > Hmmm... Maybe that's what happened. I'll simulate another crash tonight to see what happens. Thanks. L -- MY EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED --> UPDATE YOUR ADDRESSBOOK Laurent Duperval "Montreal winters are an intelligence test, Netergy Networks - Java Center and we who are here have failed it." Phone: (514) 282-8484 ext. 228 -Doug Camilli mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Power!
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