From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from <gentoo-user+bounces-46587-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@gentoo.org>) id 1G2S8I-0005cx-Cw for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:23:30 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6HCLfwm022381; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:21:41 GMT Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.185]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6HCGHpr009574 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:16:18 GMT Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id m19so471581nfc for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 05:16:18 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=U5B2VbPZDnY2CPrNKeQz8FLholMZHGHOt8JhjaRHJsPvHuH5dKT7TLzzFzDn3evAXBNzs8jlM/WXvhf0ijyrBBVIxKJkCHFGQg7EPhu/DRxCOLAU78LLslaO5136ssvnUH6+OxchKIXuwtwyDAg/61ne+N3b+mqOY9awlHKbqp4= Received: by 10.78.179.12 with SMTP id b12mr798602huf; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 05:16:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.169.15 with HTTP; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 05:16:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4e90cdd40607170516k5119d9des95a80b5a0af1304@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 14:16:16 +0200 From: "Janusz Bossy" <janusz.bossy@gmail.com> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Reiserfs meltdown In-Reply-To: <17bd4e850607170501ne9ffbabgdb36ca7f5cc332fb@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <44BB6720.9080502@gmail.com> <1153133466.6037.39.camel@localhost.localdomain> <17bd4e850607170501ne9ffbabgdb36ca7f5cc332fb@mail.gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 98147f02-5dc0-43b6-938f-0ecb0a4d140d X-Archives-Hash: 5fc9fe80ce56b961732356ccfd557143 On 7/17/06, Ralph Slooten <axllent@gmail.com> wrote: > What is the best way to *really* format a drive before recreating a > journalled filesystem (reiserfs) so that I really know it's not using > an old corrupt one or something? I have other working partitions on > that drive so an fdisk is not possible: ~ `cat /dev/zero > /dev/hda3` > ? I always managed to restore my partition after mkfs.reiserfs and fsck.resierfs --rebuild-tree -S. It should (at least I think so) clear the tree and the journal. -- Pozdrawiam Janusz YANOUSHek Bossy gg# 791964 tlen yanoushek@tlen.pl jabber yanoushek@chrome.pl -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list