On Tuesday 09 May 2006 12:58 pm, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
Resize_reiserfs is exactly the nightmare I was talking about. When I see "use cfdisk" followed closely by "Make sure you re-create it with the same starting disk cylinder as before! Otherwise, the resize operation will certainly not work, and you may lose your entire filesystem." I want to shoot the programmers :-)
I am sure I must have seen you or others mention qtparted before, but nothing showed up when I went to google. Thanks for the reminder.
I found that qtparted requires the progrsreiserfs package, which is said to conflict with the "official" reiserfsprogs from namesys (the namesys package seems to be called "reiserfs" in SuSE); I've also seen a lot of talk about progsreiserfs destroying filesystems. It is difficult to sort through this tangle of information, so if you have any observations they'd be appreciated. I use QTParted from a Knoppix stand-alone. While I have installed QTParted on SuSE in the past, I did not like the results. In my experience using SuSE and ReiserFS, I have not trashed a file system. I did have a corruption issue a number of years ago on 2 different systems, both have proven to be hardware related. In the case of the laptop, I have a bad memory module. In the case of the desktop, I would have HDs simply go offline. That proved to be a flaky power supply. After replacing the power supply the system remained stable until I upgraded a month or so ago. -- Jerry Feldman
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