Just backup the entire partion (remember to retain permissions, pax is good for such things ) mkfs.*foo* and then copy back ....
Id go for XFS on a desktop boxen ....fast ,stable and plays nice with all current kernels .....but thats only MOH ....im sure theres plenty of JFS/Reiser/EXT* advocates out there who would disagree ..... Cheers Dale. On Thu, 27 May 2004 11:14, InfoHelp wrote: > 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] > > >add read-only to your kernel line in grub so that it boots readonly from > >nowe on, and fsck can check it. > > is that assuming I have a separate /boot partition - I have not. Seems > to have been accepted from Grub ok though. > > > 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
