J. Roeleveld wrote:
On Friday 27 August 2010 11:49:00 Dale wrote:
J. Roeleveld wrote:
Hmmm, I use resierfs for my file systems, most of them anyway. I still
use e2fsprogs to change those?
Nope:
eve ~ # reiserfstune --help
reiserfstune: unrecognized option '--help'
reiserfstune: Usage: reiserfstune [options] device [block-count]
Options:
-j | --journal-device file current journal device
--journal-new-device file new journal device
-o | --journal-new-offset N new journal offset in blocks
-s | --journal-new-size N new journal size in blocks
-t | --trans-max-size N new journal max transaction size in blocks
--no-journal-available current journal is not available
--make-journal-standard new journal to be standard
-b | --add-badblocks file add to bad block list
-B | --badblocks file set the bad block list
-u | --uuid UUID|random set new UUID
-l | --label LABEL set new label
-f | --force force tuning, less confirmations
-V print version and exit
IOW (as example):
reiserfstune -l ROOTDISK /dev/hda1
Is there a way to boot a Gentoo/Knoppix CD and make it use the PATA
drivers? That way I can boot it and see exactly how it will name them
and what drive is what without actually changing anything at all. Is
there a boot option "noide" or some other switch I can use?
Afraid not.
The naming scheme is, officially, not constant and can change with reboots.
On my server, with hotswap, I get different device-names when I remove a disk
and plug it back in.
Eg. /dev/sdb -> /dev/sdj
(as example)
Don't think you'll have that particular issue, but having these names change
between reboots is possible. Especially if a drive fails and is not found
during boot or a new drive is added.
Not tested, but I believe USB-drives might also get pushed into the mix?
--
Joost
I do know the USB stuff changes but I wasn't sure about the others. I
would think the main drives in a system would come first but one could
never make that promise. I'm giving serious thought to using the
labels. It would also mean that I don't have to remember what partition
is what. Currently I would mount and then list what is in the directory
to see what is in it and figure out what it is. With the labels
feature, even fdisk would tell me what is what.
This would be a good time to move the OS to a new drive. If things work
out, run from the new drive. If things blow up, boot the old drive with
the old kernel, old fstab and other settings.
Thanks.
Dale
:-) :-)
