Re: Wheezy live [was] Re: regarding e2fsprogs 1.42

2012-01-05 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2012-01-04, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 04/01/12 19:08, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> Apologies Alan, I overlooked your post. >> >> >> On 04/01/12 03:08, Alan Greenberger wrote: >>> On 2012-01-03, Scott Ferguson wrote: The auto fsck/root problem (if ever encountered) could be got around by >>

Re: Wheezy live [was] Re: regarding e2fsprogs 1.42

2012-01-04 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 04/01/12 19:08, Scott Ferguson wrote: > Apologies Alan, I overlooked your post. > > > On 04/01/12 03:08, Alan Greenberger wrote: >> On 2012-01-03, Scott Ferguson wrote: >>> The auto fsck/root problem (if ever encountered) could be got around by >>> using the Wheezy live CD/USB[*1] which is th

Re: Wheezy live [was] Re: regarding e2fsprogs 1.42

2012-01-04 Thread Scott Ferguson
Apologies Alan, I overlooked your post. On 04/01/12 03:08, Alan Greenberger wrote: > On 2012-01-03, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> The auto fsck/root problem (if ever encountered) could be got around by >> using the Wheezy live CD/USB[*1] which is the path I chose thanks to >> your chroot tip. > > It

Wheezy live [was] Re: regarding e2fsprogs 1.42

2012-01-03 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2012-01-03, Scott Ferguson wrote: > The auto fsck/root problem (if ever encountered) could be got around by > using the Wheezy live CD/USB[*1] which is the path I chose thanks to > your chroot tip. It looks like you have gotten Wheezy live to work. I have not been able to. What I have tried

Re: regarding e2fsprogs 1.42

2012-01-03 Thread Joar Jegleim
ok, thanks for your tip . This is a critical system since it's a backup server :\ I went for xfs when we upgraded the disks, but xfs gave me serious performance problems. Deleting hardlinks from backing up a mailserver (~1.6TB maildirs) went from ~5 hours on ext4 to more than 28 hours on xfs (?) I'

Re: regarding e2fsprogs 1.42

2012-01-02 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 03/01/12 07:12, Jochen Spieker wrote: > Camaleón: >> On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:27:50 +0100, Joar Jegleim wrote: >> >>> anybody got any foo on how to install e2fsprogs from wheezy into squeeze >>> ? >>> […] >>> Has anybody tried this, or got any hints ? >> >> No hints, sorry. Sounds like a dangerou

Re: regarding e2fsprogs 1.42

2012-01-02 Thread Jochen Spieker
Camaleón: > On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:27:50 +0100, Joar Jegleim wrote: > >> anybody got any foo on how to install e2fsprogs from wheezy into squeeze >> ? >> […] >> Has anybody tried this, or got any hints ? > > No hints, sorry. Sounds like a dangerous movement only suitable for a VM > (with a prev

Re: regarding e2fsprogs 1.42

2012-01-02 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:27:50 +0100, Joar Jegleim wrote: > anybody got any foo on how to install e2fsprogs from wheezy into squeeze > ? It's tagged as an "essential" package. I would keep my paws out of it :-) > I really need +16TB partition support which was added in e2fsprogs > 1.42 . Wheezy g