Re: [Sheflug] ReiserFS and ext2 fsck question.

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

Alex Hudson wrote:
> 
> > 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...

Yeah, I wasn't too sure on that one myself :-) I'll be waiting on a
harddrive being repaired anyhow, then use that as backup when I go
Reiser.
 
> > 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.

 Now why didn't I think of that?

> 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.

 Ah. What's the command? make zDisk vmlinuz-2.4.0-reiser for example? 
The only time I've ever made a boot disk is at install... what about
basic programs like mount/vi/ls etc?
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