Re: reiserfs annoyances

2001-02-07 Thread kmself
on Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 01:13:08PM -0800, Jim Nutt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Matthew Sackman writes: > > Just to say that I've just switched most of my partitions over to reiserfs > > and am having exactely the same problems: the boot procedure halts on each > > boot-up because of the request

Re: reiserfs annoyances

2001-02-05 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 08:52:36PM -0500, Dan Christensen wrote: > Is there a way to convert an existing partition to reiserfs? Or does > one have to create a new reiserfs partition and copy stuff over? Is > there documentation outlining the procedure? > > Dan You have to have a spare partition

Re: reiserfs annoyances

2001-02-04 Thread Dan Christensen
Is there a way to convert an existing partition to reiserfs? Or does one have to create a new reiserfs partition and copy stuff over? Is there documentation outlining the procedure? Dan

Re: reiserfs annoyances

2001-02-04 Thread Matthew Sackman
Yes, this works - removing the pass and dump parameters for ReiserFs disks stops the forced checking of the partitions. However, having defaults,errors=remount-ro still causes an error: unrecognised mount options. So I guess the errors=remount-ro bit is being passed to reiserfs as I don't get this

Re: reiserfs annoyances

2001-02-04 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, I just started using reiserfs (not for my "important" partitions yet), it seems that the check takes place without the "pass" entry in fstab, though I'm not certain. from dmesg: reiserfs: checking transaction log (device 08:06) ... Using r5 hash to sort names reiserfs: using 3.5.x disk format

Re: reiserfs annoyances

2001-02-04 Thread Jim Nutt
Matthew Sackman writes: > Just to say that I've just switched most of my partitions over to reiserfs > and am having exactely the same problems: the boot procedure halts on each > boot-up because of the request for a file-system check on the root partition. I converted both my partitions to rei

Re: reiserfs annoyances

2001-02-04 Thread iehrenwald
On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Matthew Sackman wrote: > Just to say that I've just switched most of my partitions over to reiserfs > and am having exactely the same problems: the boot procedure halts on each > boot-up because of the request for a file-system check on the root partition. I don't know if this

Re: reiserfs annoyances

2001-02-04 Thread ipswitch
On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 07:45:56PM +, Matthew Sackman wrote: > Just to say that I've just switched most of my partitions over to reiserfs > and am having exactely the same problems: the boot procedure halts on each > boot-up because of the request for a file-system check on the root partition.

Re: reiserfs annoyances

2001-02-04 Thread Matthew Sackman
Just to say that I've just switched most of my partitions over to reiserfs and am having exactely the same problems: the boot procedure halts on each boot-up because of the request for a file-system check on the root partition. What is going on here? I figured that perhaps there was a problem wit

Re: reiserfs annoyances

2001-02-03 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 05:05:29PM +0100, Matthias Wieser wrote: > > /dev/hda2 / reiserfs defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 > Because the filesystem will be in good shape, the error-statement does > not make sense. It is just a ext2 issue. (when fsck tells, the file > system is cor

Re: reiserfs annoyances

2001-02-03 Thread Matthias Wieser
Damon Muller wrote: > > The first is that, presumably resiserfsck doesn't understand some option > passed to it by /etc/init.d/checkroot.sh, as when it gets to that stage > it stops and waits until you confirm to do an fsck. Does anyone know a > way around this, short of commenting out the of