Re: [Sheflug] ReiserFS and ext2 fsck question.

["Alex Hudson" <nospam [at] alexhudson.com>]

> I know that rumour has it that it'll be included with 2.4.1, but either
> way, I'd still like to figure it out now.

I doubt it will be in 2.4.1. 2.4.10, maybe. I think Mr. Pranevich has gone a
little overboard on that one. I seem to recall that the latest reiserfs's
are different to the previous ones, also, requiring people with older
partitions to reformat...

> Patching the kernel and creating ReiserFS partitions isn't gonna be a
> problem *touch wood*, but I was wondering how fsck might be affected by
> the change.
>
> How do I prevent the normal ext2 fsck from trashing the ReiserFS
> partitions if system doesn't do a clean shutdown?
> Does Reiserfsck replace or supplement fsck?

ext2.fsck won't touch anything that's not an ext2 partition. Otherwise, you
wouldn't be able to dual boot because fsck.ext2 would hose your DOS
partition every time.. just follow the reiserfs instructions and you'll be
fine.

Also, _make_ _sure_ you create a boot disk. If you don't, no standard boot
disk will be able to read your root partition. So, if you screw lilo (for
example), you screw the whole machine. You'll just get a kernel panic every
time you attempt to boot.

Cheers,

Alex.


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