Re: [gentoo-user] memory(gray matter) needs jog-DONE

2009-10-30 Thread Kyle Bader
And iirc you can got ext3 -> ext2. The same does not hold true for ext4 -> ext3. On 10/30/09, walt wrote: > On 10/30/2009 10:26 AM, Stroller wrote: >> >> On 30 Oct 2009, at 17:04, Maxim Wexler wrote: >>> ... >>> Yes I know, ext2 is rather retro, but I was >>> persuaded to use it by reading the f

Re: [gentoo-user] memory(gray matter) needs jog-DONE

2009-10-30 Thread Stroller
On 30 Oct 2009, at 17:04, Maxim Wexler wrote: ... Yes I know, ext2 is rather retro, but I was persuaded to use it by reading the forums and now it's a lot simpler just to run tune2fs rather thman scrap the system and start again. I know you can convert an ext3 filesystem to ext4. Can you not

Re: [gentoo-user] memory(gray matter) needs jog-DONE

2009-10-30 Thread Maxim Wexler
> > I'm not sure why your system needed to be checked for each boot. > Perhaps you can post the exact error message? I'm pretty sure it wasn't > fragmentation. What it *might* be saying (but again we can't verify > without an error message) is that your filesystem contains errors that > cannot be

Re: [gentoo-user] memory(gray matter) needs jog

2009-10-29 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 15:54 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: > Hi group, > A while back I needed help with an ext2 file system that required > checking every boot before mounting. The drive suffered from errors > involving 'non-contiguous files' I'm not sure what your problem was but this wasn't it. "N

[gentoo-user] memory(gray matter) needs jog

2009-10-29 Thread Maxim Wexler
Hi group, A while back I needed help with an ext2 file system that required checking every boot before mounting. The drive suffered from errors involving 'non-contiguous files'.The solution was to run (this is where things get hazy) e2fsck on the offender. I keep thinking it's '-i -o', but there'