I have tried to expand my reiserfs partition many times using resize_reiserfs to no avail. Then I realized I was trying to use free space which was not formatted as reiserfs, but as ext2! :( By the way, anyone know how to format some free space as reiserfs...........? :) Mike -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Cleary UNIX Qualification and Commands Data General, a Division of EMC2 62 T.W. Alexander Dr. Research Triangle Park, NC mdcleary@dg-rtp.dg.com (919) 248-6033 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Guy Van Sanden [mailto:sienix@crosswinds.net] Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 4:21 AM To: Jerry Kreps; Jerry VB Cc: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] reiserfs Yes there is: resize_reiserfs growing can be done online, without unmounting (though unmounting is safer), shrinking offline. Good luck!
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On 07/01/2001, 04:00:27, Jerry Kreps <jerrykreps@jlkreps.net> wrote regarding Re: [SLE] reiserfs:
AFAIK, there is not. When you change the partition sizes you have to reformat. JLK
On Saturday 06 January 2001 19:29, Jerry VB wrote:
May I jump in here and ask a question about Reiser?
Is there an easy way to resize/move reiser partitions, like Partiton Magic does?
Jerry Kreps wrote:
What does the "notail" option do?
On Saturday 06 January 2001 08:03, Nick Zentena wrote:
On January 6, 2001 08:48 am, Jerry Kreps wrote:
I read somewhere that /boot shouldn't use ReiserFS. Is this still true?
I don't have a true /boot. I just keep it under /. The issues that I'm aware of are it needs to be big enough. Second the way the kernel file was written could cause problems for lilo. But if you use the notail options in /etc/fstab then lilo isn't an issue. My understanding is that newer versions of lilo and reiser don't even have that limitation.
My /etc/fstab looks like:
/dev/hda4 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hda2 / reiserfs defaults,notail 1 1 /dev/hda6 /var reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/hda8 /opt reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/hda10 /usr reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/hda12 /tmp reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/hda9 /home reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/hda11 /usr/local reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/hda7 /var/spool reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/hda1 /dos vfat defaults 1 2 /dev/hda5 /dosd vfat defaults 1 2
/dev/hdb /cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0
/dev/fd0 /floppy auto noauto,user 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0 # End of YaST-generated fstab lines
So I'm pure reiser.
Nick
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If I'm correct, if you have reiser, and there is free space on the drive, you can grow the partition. However, is this space is a formatted ext2 partition, that's another matter...
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On 08/01/2001, 15:27:10, "Cleary, Mike" <Cleary_Mike@emc.com> wrote regarding RE: [SLE] reiserfs:
I have tried to expand my reiserfs partition many times using resize_reiserfs to no avail. Then I realized I was trying to use free space which was not formatted as reiserfs, but as ext2! :(
By the way, anyone know how to format some free space as reiserfs...........? :)
Mike
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-----Original Message----- From: Guy Van Sanden [mailto:sienix@crosswinds.net] Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 4:21 AM To: Jerry Kreps; Jerry VB Cc: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] reiserfs
Yes there is:
resize_reiserfs
growing can be done online, without unmounting (though unmounting is safer), shrinking offline.
Good luck!
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On 07/01/2001, 04:00:27, Jerry Kreps <jerrykreps@jlkreps.net> wrote regarding Re: [SLE] reiserfs:
AFAIK, there is not. When you change the partition sizes you have to reformat. JLK
On Saturday 06 January 2001 19:29, Jerry VB wrote:
May I jump in here and ask a question about Reiser?
Is there an easy way to resize/move reiser partitions, like Partiton Magic does?
Jerry Kreps wrote:
What does the "notail" option do?
On Saturday 06 January 2001 08:03, Nick Zentena wrote:
On January 6, 2001 08:48 am, Jerry Kreps wrote:
I read somewhere that /boot shouldn't use ReiserFS. Is this still true?
I don't have a true /boot. I just keep it under /. The issues that I'm aware of are it needs to be big enough. Second the way the kernel file was written could cause problems for lilo. But if you use the notail options in /etc/fstab then lilo isn't an issue. My understanding is that newer versions of lilo and reiser don't even have that limitation.
My /etc/fstab looks like:
/dev/hda4 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hda2 / reiserfs defaults,notail 1 1 /dev/hda6 /var reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/hda8 /opt reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/hda10 /usr reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/hda12 /tmp reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/hda9 /home reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/hda11 /usr/local reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/hda7 /var/spool reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/hda1 /dos vfat defaults 1 2 /dev/hda5 /dosd vfat defaults 1 2
/dev/hdb /cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0
/dev/fd0 /floppy auto noauto,user 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0 # End of YaST-generated fstab lines
So I'm pure reiser.
Nick
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also sprach Guy Van Sanden (on Mon, 08 Jan 2001 03:46:26PM +0000):
If I'm correct, if you have reiser, and there is free space on the drive, you can grow the partition.
is there a way to move partitions around? i.e. have something like | ext2 | reiserfs | ext2 | <free> | and you want | ext2 | reiserfs | ext2 | | which means moving the ext2 partition back first before resizing reiserfs. what about the surprise package? i'd hate to be using partitionmagic or anything else that runs on micro$oft crap. martin
Nick
could you guys cut reply comments a little? i mean including six emails in each reply is nonsense! [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo madduck@!#:1:s@\@@@.net -- sum quod eris.
What about: Create a new ext2 partition on the end of the free space, mount it temporary and copy everything over from the old ext2 partition (use tar or cp -a to preserve permissions). After that, delete the old ext2 partition: you'd have ext2 | reiser | free space | ext2 You should now be able to grow the reiser partition (I hope :-) )... I would not recommend using PQMagic... I don't think it'll recognise the reiser partition... I'm sorry, but I'm not familiar with surprise...
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On 08/01/2001, 16:55:29, MaD dUCK <madduck@madduck.net> wrote regarding Re: [SLE] reiserfs:
also sprach Guy Van Sanden (on Mon, 08 Jan 2001 03:46:26PM +0000):
If I'm correct, if you have reiser, and there is free space on the drive, you can grow the partition.
is there a way to move partitions around? i.e. have something like
| ext2 | reiserfs | ext2 | <free> |
and you want | ext2 | reiserfs | ext2 | |
which means moving the ext2 partition back first before resizing reiserfs.
what about the surprise package? i'd hate to be using partitionmagic or anything else that runs on micro$oft crap.
martin
> Nick
could you guys cut reply comments a little? i mean including six emails in each reply is nonsense!
[greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo madduck@!#:1:s@\@@@.net -- sum quod eris.
also sprach Guy Van Sanden (on Mon, 08 Jan 2001 04:22:38PM +0000):
| ext2 | reiserfs | ext2 | <free> |
Create a new ext2 partition on the end of the free space, mount it temporary and copy everything over from the old ext2 partition (use tar or cp -a to preserve permissions).
After that, delete the old ext2 partition: you'd have
ext2 | reiser | free space | ext2
but that only works if the free space is big enough to hold a copy of the ext2...
I would not recommend using PQMagic... I don't think it'll recognise the reiser partition...
reiser is not a partition type, it's a file system. to PQMagic, there is no difference between ext2 and reiserfs because they are both partition type 83. martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo madduck@!#:1:s@\@@@.net -- "my father, a good man, told me: 'never lose your ignorance; you cannot replace it.'" -- erich maria remarque
Hi, I'm using SuSE 7, and I have a couple of queries - if anyone can point me in the right direction I would appreciate it. 1. The root prompt is '$' rather than the more traditional '#'. I'd prefer the latter - how do I change it? 2. I'm accessing the SuSE machine from a Windoze box via Reflexion (an X client for Windows). It works very well, except that in the shell backspace acts as delete, and shift-backspace acts as backspace. Anyone got any ideas how to change this? Regards, Alan
Alan Lenton wrote:
I'm using SuSE 7, and I have a couple of queries - if anyone can point me in the right direction I would appreciate it.
1. The root prompt is '$' rather than the more traditional '#'. I'd prefer the latter - how do I change it?
Assuming you use the bash shell, you want to change the variable $PS1. Do a 'echo $PS1' to see what the prompt is currently set to, and then do: export PS1="<newprompt>" where <newprompt> is the old value of $PS1, with the ending '$' replaced by a '#'. If this works as you want it, you can put it in root's .profile file.
2. I'm accessing the SuSE machine from a Windoze box via Reflexion (an X client for Windows). It works very well, except that in the shell backspace acts as delete, and shift-backspace acts as backspace. Anyone got any ideas how to change this?
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