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On Friday 27 August 2010 11:21:08 Dale wrote: |
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> J. Roeleveld wrote: |
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> > On Friday 27 August 2010 11:49:00 Dale wrote: |
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> >> J. Roeleveld wrote: |
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> >> |
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> >> Hmmm, I use resierfs for my file systems, most of them anyway. I still |
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> >> use e2fsprogs to change those? |
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> > |
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> > Nope: |
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> > eve ~ # reiserfstune --help |
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> > reiserfstune: unrecognized option '--help' |
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> > reiserfstune: Usage: reiserfstune [options] device [block-count] |
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> > |
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> > Options: |
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> > -j | --journal-device file current journal device |
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> > --journal-new-device file new journal device |
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> > -o | --journal-new-offset N new journal offset in blocks |
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> > -s | --journal-new-size N new journal size in blocks |
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> > -t | --trans-max-size N new journal max transaction size in |
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> > blocks --no-journal-available current journal is not available |
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> > --make-journal-standard new journal to be standard |
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> > -b | --add-badblocks file add to bad block list |
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> > -B | --badblocks file set the bad block list |
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> > -u | --uuid UUID|random set new UUID |
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> > -l | --label LABEL set new label |
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> > -f | --force force tuning, less confirmations |
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> > -V print version and exit |
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> > |
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> > IOW (as example): |
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> > reiserfstune -l ROOTDISK /dev/hda1 |
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> > |
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> >> Is there a way to boot a Gentoo/Knoppix CD and make it use the PATA |
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> >> drivers? That way I can boot it and see exactly how it will name them |
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> >> and what drive is what without actually changing anything at all. Is |
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> >> there a boot option "noide" or some other switch I can use? |
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> > |
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> > Afraid not. |
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> > The naming scheme is, officially, not constant and can change with |
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> > reboots. |
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> > |
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> > On my server, with hotswap, I get different device-names when I remove a |
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> > disk and plug it back in. |
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> > Eg. /dev/sdb -> /dev/sdj |
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> > (as example) |
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> > Don't think you'll have that particular issue, but having these names |
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> > change between reboots is possible. Especially if a drive fails and is |
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> > not found during boot or a new drive is added. |
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> > |
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> > Not tested, but I believe USB-drives might also get pushed into the mix? |
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> > |
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> > -- |
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> > Joost |
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> |
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> I do know the USB stuff changes but I wasn't sure about the others. I |
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> would think the main drives in a system would come first but one could |
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> never make that promise. I'm giving serious thought to using the |
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> labels. It would also mean that I don't have to remember what partition |
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> is what. Currently I would mount and then list what is in the directory |
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> to see what is in it and figure out what it is. With the labels |
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> feature, even fdisk would tell me what is what. |
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> This would be a good time to move the OS to a new drive. If things work |
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> out, run from the new drive. If things blow up, boot the old drive with |
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> the old kernel, old fstab and other settings. |
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While on the topic of labels, is there a way to change the label of a reiser4 |
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partition, *after* it has been created? I rebuilt two partitions and forgot |
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to relabel them ... |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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