Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id f7T8J2p17478 for linux-xfs-outgoing; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 01:19:02 -0700 Received: from babel.spoiled.org (babel.spoiled.org [212.84.234.227]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id f7T8Iwd17438 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 01:18:58 -0700 Received: (qmail 23178 invoked by uid 8); 29 Aug 2001 08:18:56 -0000 From: thomas graichen Reply-To: thomas graichen X-Newsgroups: spoiled.linux.sgi.xfs Subject: Re: Data destruction Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 10:03:45 +0200 Organization: spoiled dot org Lines: 27 Distribution: local Message-ID: References: Reply-To: thomas graichen X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@spoiled.org User-Agent: tin/1.4.4-20000803 ("Vet for the Insane") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.8-xfs (i686)) To: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Sender: owner-linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Ivan Ivanov wrote: > Hi, > I spent two days to hack Slackware 8 installer and to add support for XFS > root filesystem and xfsprogs.tgz package. > Kernel is 2.4.6 patched for XFS. > I have the following problems: > 1. When XFS is root filesystem it can't be checked for errors. > Wnen I go to runlevel 1 and remount / readonly all xfs repair tools say > that filesystem is mounted. The only way is to make two boot disks with kernel > and static linked repair tools on ramdisk. some possible way around this is my miniroot framework (which is quite handy in other situations too) ... you may find it at http://people.spoiled.org/tgr/unix/miniroot/ maybe it helps someone ... t -- thomas graichen ... perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away. --- antoine de saint-exupery