Re: WARNING ! Re: [gentoo-user] Labeling reiserfs partitions

[Meino Christian Cramer <Meino.Cramer@gmx.de>]

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
Subject: Re: WARNING ! Re: [gentoo-user] Labeling reiserfs partitions
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 14:05:46 +0100



> On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 14:43:36 +0200 (CEST), Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
> 
> >  At least for me, this does not work! 
> >  I applied mkreiserfs -l "root" to a SATA disk with the root fs on
> >  it and later reiserfsck. reiserfsck did not find any inconsistency
> >  because
> 
> Wouldn't it have been safer to have tried it on a USB stick first?

  ...I did copy the whole rootfs to a previously total empty SATA
  disk and used THAT hd for experimenting...

  I am not /that/ blind...



  But the idea, which was posted, was (cite):

  "You can always run mkreiserfs and, after that, restore the data with reiserfsck."

  ...and in this simplified form it do harm systems.

  
 
> Anyway, the command you want is "reiserfstune --label ...".
> 
> 
> -- 
> Neil Bothwick
> 
> If nothing sticks to Teflon, how do they stick teflon on the pan?
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