Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

[Mick]

On Saturday 28 August 2010 01:27:10 Stroller wrote:
> On 28 Aug 2010, at 00:06, Mick wrote:
> > On Friday 27 August 2010 11:21:08 Dale wrote:
> >> 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
> >
> > ...
> > While on the topic of labels, is there a way to change the label of
> > a reiser4
> > partition, *after* it has been created?  I rebuilt two partitions
> > and forgot
> > to relabel them ...
>
> Isn't the answer to that in the stuff you quoted?
>
> Surely one can use reiserfstune without damaging the filesystem?

Yes, but I am not sure if reiserfstune will work with reiser4 - I have only 
used it with reiserfs and relabelling worked fine.
-- 
Regards,
Mick