Re: botched ext3 conversion

2003-01-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 09:11:12AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 16:48:35 + > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That doesn't match either /etc/rcS.d/S30checkfs.sh or the e2fsck man > > page. > > But it does match what man shutdown says. Right, but I don't think

Re: botched ext3 conversion

2003-01-20 Thread Steve Lamb
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 16:48:35 + Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That doesn't match either /etc/rcS.d/S30checkfs.sh or the e2fsck man > page. But it does match what man shutdown says. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 510

Re: botched ext3 conversion

2003-01-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 07:45:34AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:32:48PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > Won't the normal fsck on boot do the job? /forcefsck adds the -f option, > > "force checking even if the file system seems clean"; I didn't realize > > the forced check

Re: botched ext3 conversion

2003-01-20 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:32:48PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > Won't the normal fsck on boot do the job? /forcefsck adds the -f option, > "force checking even if the file system seems clean"; I didn't realize > the forced check was required here. No, -f is fast boot, no filesystem check even if i

Re: botched ext3 conversion

2003-01-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 07:49:18AM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On 20/01/03 John Griffiths did speaketh: > > great, thanks. > > > > the forcefsck was recommended to me i didn't think it'd hurt. > > It was a good recommendation actually. The next fsck is what hides the > journal permanen

Re: botched ext3 conversion

2003-01-20 Thread Steve Lamb
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 07:49:18 -0500 "Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It was a good recommendation actually. The next fsck is what hides the > journal permanently. That it does. Personally I did it with shutdown -r -F. I recommend not doing it from remote or without a con

Re: botched ext3 conversion

2003-01-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 20/01/03 John Griffiths did speaketh: > great, thanks. > > the forcefsck was recommended to me i didn't think it'd hurt. It was a good recommendation actually. The next fsck is what hides the journal permanently. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8B

Re: botched ext3 conversion

2003-01-19 Thread John Griffiths
> >You don't need to redo the tune2fs -j commands. You already have journals; >they're just not being used yet. Just edit /etc/fstab and reboot. > >I don't know why you're doing the touch/forcefsck. I don't think it's >necessary. > great, thanks. the forcefsck was recommended to me i didn't think

Re: botched ext3 conversion

2003-01-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 05:07:57PM +1100, John Griffiths wrote: > so could i skip re-running the tune? Yup. -- .''`. Baloo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than to fix a system msg25066/pgp0.pgp Descrip

Re: botched ext3 conversion

2003-01-19 Thread Craig Dickson
John Griffiths wrote: > Whoops, > > missed a step converting a box to ext3 > > procedure i was using was: > > 1) #tune2fs -j /dev/hda* > > for all ext2 file systems. > > 2) edit /etc/fstab to change all references from ext2 to auto > > 3) #touch/forcefsck > > 4) reboot > > only i forgot st

Re: botched ext3 conversion

2003-01-19 Thread John Griffiths
> >Nope. ext3 is ext2 with a journal, basically. You might need to >compile ext3 in, or have the module loaded from initrd. > so could i skip re-running the tune? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: botched ext3 conversion

2003-01-19 Thread John Griffiths
> >what does #touch/forcefsck do anyway ? > oops, should have read #touch /forcefsck as i understand it forces an fsck on the reboot which sets the jounal up properly WARNING - This email is confidential and may contain copyright material. If you are not the intended recipient of Capital Moni

Re: botched ext3 conversion

2003-01-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 04:34:47PM +1100, John Griffiths wrote: > it rebooted fine and #cat /proc/mounts shows the / file ssystem as ext 2 > and the others as ext2 > > i was thinking of just re-runnign the procedure and rebooting. > > is there any danger in this? Nope. ext3 is ext2 with a journ

RE: botched ext3 conversion

2003-01-19 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> > > Whoops, > > missed a step converting a box to ext3 > > procedure i was using was: > > 1) #tune2fs -j /dev/hda* > > for all ext2 file systems. > > 2) edit /etc/fstab to change all references from ext2 to auto > > 3) #touch/forcefsck > > 4) reboot > > only i forgot step 2 > > it reb