Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the "newer" PATA kernel drivers

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Mick wrote:
> On Saturday 28 August 2010 01:27:10 Stroller wrote:
>    
>> On 28 Aug 2010, at 00:06, Mick wrote:
>>      
>>> 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
>>>>>            
>>> ...
>>> 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 ...
>>>        
>> Isn't the answer to that in the stuff you quoted?
>>
>> Surely one can use reiserfstune without damaging the filesystem?
>>      
> Yes, but I am not sure if reiserfstune will work with reiser4 - I have only
> used it with reiserfs and relabelling worked fine.
>    

Slight hiccup here:

root@smoker / # reiserfstune -l root /dev/hda6
reiserfstune: Reiserfstune is not allowed to be run on mounted filesystem.
root@smoker / #

So, I have to do this from a CD/DVD.  Well, once done, it is done.

Dale

:-)  :-)