(Note to JondZ: please do -NOT- send a completely unrelated message by replying to an existing message, instead, compose a new message and send this to the list post address. The way you do things breaks threaded MUAs.)
(Second Note: except for the last paragraph [background], this really looks more like a PH-Linux-Newbie message. Maybe JondZ can contemplate posting there and/or searching the archives?) On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 04:09:28AM -0400, JondZ wrote: > i converted my filesystem from ext2 to reiserfs, > this is what i did: > > mkfs.reiserfs /dev/hdb5 > mount /dev/hdb5 /misc > > and it worked. too easy...have I missed anything > or am I good to go? You should be good to go. Update /etc/fstab, though, so that wherever /dev/hdb5 will be mounted on will default to ReiserFS (as the filesystem type) as it should. You could also have used mkreiserfs instead of mkfs.reiserfs. Same same, though. The latter is a symlink to the former, I believe, and is there so that 'mkfs -t reiserfs' will work. > BTW the partition type is still type 83 (Linux). > Do i need to change this? Type 83 is the correct partition type for ext2, ext3, ReiserFS and XFS. I don't have experience with JFS so I can't speak about it. > (background as to why i needed to convert: the partition is being used > as a backup mirror containing massive amounts of hard links and > ext3/ext2 just keeps getting corrupted and i always ended up with a > damaged filesystem every now and then--becomes unusuable after about a > month. so now i try reiserfs). What are the massive amounts of hard links for? Why does ext2/ext3 keep getting corrupted? Have you reported this to the LKML and/or ext3-users mailing lists? --> Jijo -- Federico Sevilla III : http://jijo.free.net.ph : When we speak of free Network Administrator : The Leather Collection, Inc. : software we refer to GnuPG Key ID : 0x93B746BE : freedom, not price. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
