On Friday 27 August 2010 11:21:08 Dale wrote:
> J. Roeleveld wrote:
> > On Friday 27 August 2010 11:49:00 Dale wrote:
> >> J. Roeleveld wrote:
> >> 
> >> Hmmm, I use resierfs for my file systems, most of them anyway.  I still
> >> use e2fsprogs to change those?
> > 
> > Nope:
> > eve ~ # reiserfstune --help
> > reiserfstune: unrecognized option '--help'
> > reiserfstune: Usage: reiserfstune [options] device [block-count]
> > 
> > Options:
> >    -j | --journal-device file    current journal device
> >    --journal-new-device file     new journal device
> >    -o | --journal-new-offset N   new journal offset in blocks
> >    -s | --journal-new-size N     new journal size in blocks
> >    -t | --trans-max-size N       new journal max transaction size in
> >    blocks --no-journal-available        current journal is not available
> >    --make-journal-standard       new journal to be standard
> >    -b | --add-badblocks file     add to bad block list
> >    -B | --badblocks file         set the bad block list
> >    -u | --uuid UUID|random       set new UUID
> >    -l | --label LABEL            set new label
> >    -f | --force                  force tuning, less confirmations
> >    -V                            print version and exit
> > 
> > IOW (as example):
> > reiserfstune -l ROOTDISK /dev/hda1
> > 
> >> Is there a way to boot a Gentoo/Knoppix CD and make it use the PATA
> >> drivers?  That way I can boot it and see exactly how it will name them
> >> and what drive is what without actually changing anything at all.  Is
> >> there a boot option "noide" or some other switch I can use?
> > 
> > Afraid not.
> > The naming scheme is, officially, not constant and can change with
> > reboots.
> > 
> > On my server, with hotswap, I get different device-names when I remove a
> > disk and plug it back in.
> > Eg. /dev/sdb ->  /dev/sdj
> > (as example)
> > Don't think you'll have that particular issue, but having these names
> > change between reboots is possible. Especially if a drive fails and is
> > not found during boot or a new drive is added.
> > 
> > Not tested, but I believe USB-drives might also get pushed into the mix?
> > 
> > --
> > Joost
> 
> I do know the USB stuff changes but I wasn't sure about the others.  I
> would think the main drives in a system would come first but one could
> never make that promise.  I'm giving serious thought to using the
> labels.  It would also mean that I don't have to remember what partition
> is what.  Currently I would mount and then list what is in the directory
> to see what is in it and figure out what it is.  With the labels
> feature, even fdisk would tell me what is what.
> 
> This would be a good time to move the OS to a new drive.  If things work
> out, run from the new drive.  If things blow up, boot the old drive with
> the old kernel, old fstab and other settings.

While on the topic of labels, is there a way to change the label of a reiser4 
partition, *after* it has been created?  I rebuilt two partitions and forgot 
to relabel them ...
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Regards,
Mick