On Sunday 19 August 2018 17:33:32 David Wright wrote: > On Sun 19 Aug 2018 at 15:40:55 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > I just installed stretch to a fresh 2T HD. letting it autopartition > > and format for separate /, swap, /var and /home partitions. But I > > didn't let it overwrite the grub on the 1st drive it was/is booting > > wheezy from. > > > > I figured I'd mount it to wheezy and copy over my personal stuff, > > like an email corpus well over 15GB reaching back to 2002. > > > > But I can't mount much of the drive, / is all that will actually > > mount, because the 2 versions of ext4 are incompatible, nearly all > > the mount and e2tools can't touch the installers ext4 file systems. > > > > For instance, its not mounted: > > gene@coyote:~$ e2fsck /dev/sdb8 > > e2fsck 1.42.5 (29-Jul-2012) > > /dev/sdb8 has unsupported feature(s): metadata_csum > > e2fsck: Get a newer version of e2fsck! > > > > And of course whats installed to wheezy is the latest available > > wheezy version of e2fsck. > > > > Whats the recommended way to do these mounts so I can maintain as > > much continuity as possible? > > Can you not run your stretch installation then? In a new system, I'd > mount the old wheezy disk(s) and pull the files across. Leaving the > wheezy mount there makes it easy to look back at the old system in > case you forget a file or just want to see how you used to do a > particular something. > That is what I'll likely do when I next boot to it, but the tools to make that easy are often in the missing list. I did get synaptic to install mc, but had all sorts of perms problems I didn't expect when I tried to use it, due I think to the changes in what says is ext4 on both disks. We will eventually get it sorted I hope. So I'll be, without a doubt, back with more problems but hopefully making progress over the next week or so. Progress always puts me in a better mood than I was for the first post in this thread.
====== It will be a week down the log when I get to it, but I absolutely must figure out how to get ssh -Y to work again. Works flawlessly wheezy to wheezy, but wheezy to Jessie and wheezy to stretch is a no-go from the gitgo. X11 forwarding request failed on channel 0, is the error. It also fails like that from jessie(on an rpi-3b) to stretch(on a rock64), but not from stretch to jessie, but still won't let geany run, reporting "geany: can't open display". So there may be 2 show stoppers to fix. Sigh... > Cheers, > David. Thanks David. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
