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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 10:06:25
Message-Id: 4C78D9ED.1080705@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers by Mick
1 Mick wrote:
2 > On Saturday 28 August 2010 01:27:10 Stroller wrote:
3 >
4 >> On 28 Aug 2010, at 00:06, Mick wrote:
5 >>
6 >>> On Friday 27 August 2010 11:21:08 Dale wrote:
7 >>>
8 >>>> J. Roeleveld wrote:
9 >>>>
10 >>>>> On Friday 27 August 2010 11:49:00 Dale wrote:
11 >>>>>
12 >>>>>> J. Roeleveld wrote:
13 >>>>>>
14 >>>>>> Hmmm, I use resierfs for my file systems, most of them anyway. I
15 >>>>>> still
16 >>>>>> use e2fsprogs to change those?
17 >>>>>>
18 >>>>> Nope:
19 >>>>> eve ~ # reiserfstune --help
20 >>>>> reiserfstune: unrecognized option '--help'
21 >>>>> reiserfstune: Usage: reiserfstune [options] device [block-count]
22 >>>>>
23 >>>>> Options:
24 >>>>> -j | --journal-device file current journal device
25 >>>>> --journal-new-device file new journal device
26 >>>>> -o | --journal-new-offset N new journal offset in blocks
27 >>>>> -s | --journal-new-size N new journal size in blocks
28 >>>>> -t | --trans-max-size N new journal max transaction size in
29 >>>>> blocks --no-journal-available current journal is not
30 >>>>>
31 >>>>> available
32 >>>>>
33 >>>>> --make-journal-standard new journal to be standard
34 >>>>> -b | --add-badblocks file add to bad block list
35 >>>>> -B | --badblocks file set the bad block list
36 >>>>> -u | --uuid UUID|random set new UUID
37 >>>>> -l | --label LABEL set new label
38 >>>>> -f | --force force tuning, less confirmations
39 >>>>> -V print version and exit
40 >>>>>
41 >>>>> IOW (as example):
42 >>>>> reiserfstune -l ROOTDISK /dev/hda1
43 >>>>>
44 >>> ...
45 >>> While on the topic of labels, is there a way to change the label of
46 >>> a reiser4
47 >>> partition, *after* it has been created? I rebuilt two partitions
48 >>> and forgot
49 >>> to relabel them ...
50 >>>
51 >> Isn't the answer to that in the stuff you quoted?
52 >>
53 >> Surely one can use reiserfstune without damaging the filesystem?
54 >>
55 > Yes, but I am not sure if reiserfstune will work with reiser4 - I have only
56 > used it with reiserfs and relabelling worked fine.
57 >
58
59 Slight hiccup here:
60
61 root@smoker / # reiserfstune -l root /dev/hda6
62 reiserfstune: Reiserfstune is not allowed to be run on mounted filesystem.
63 root@smoker / #
64
65 So, I have to do this from a CD/DVD. Well, once done, it is done.
66
67 Dale
68
69 :-) :-)

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