Hi folks,
thanks Nick for looking at the fault yesterday.
Out of my Drafts folder comes where the install left off last week..
Nick Rout wrote:
unmount the partition which you want to check run the fsck on the partition, not the mount point. (ie the parameter is /dev/hda6 not /mnt/hda6)
ok - done successfully from SuSE install, but boot to Gentoo still says:
"Partition /dev/hda6 is mounted with write permissions, cannot check it
* Fsck could not correct all errors, manual repair needed [!!]"
This is after boot process has:
...
Adding swap [ok]
* Remounting root filesystem read-only (if necessary)... [ok]
* Checking root filesystem... [ok]
* Remounting root filesystem read/write... [ok]
is that assuming I have a separate /boot partition - I have not. Seems to have been accepted from Grub ok though.add read-only to your kernel line in grub so that it boots readonly from nowe on, and fsck can check it.
Update:
Nick checked the mount permissions, reran fsck, but the above error message remains.
Looks like I've fscked (literally) Gentoo's partition whilst it was mounted. Foobar!!
Gentoo boots & is ready to use, but it doesn't seem safe to continue with its filesystem in the above condition.
Sooo, unless there's a Reiserfs user/expert who can suggest a repair, partition reformat will follow.
Short of repeating the Gentoo install, I'd like to back it up to a spare partition, reformat ext3, then reinstate it.
Is this practical? Are there any dirs such as /proc that I need not copy complete, or Reiserfs stuff to leave behind? Or should I simply copy everything across?
Is mounting the Gentoo partition & spare partition from Suse, and using Midnight Commander to copy across the Gentoo dirs a good way to go? (I'm more confident with that than "#cp /* -r /dev/newmountpoint" etc.)
Cheers
Rik
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