William Leese wrote: > also, is it 'safe' to use hdparm when having reiserfs partitions?
If you used it with ext2 partitions, I don't see why using it with reiserfs would be a problem. It's all disk access. > I'll be doing the following: > > 1) backup each dir and its subdirs with tar (tar cf /usr, tar cf /lib etc.. > etc..) onto an unused vfat partition Okay > 2) rebooting the comp with a bootfloppy containing a kernel with reiserfs > support compiled in. Yep. > 3) rm -rf /usr, /lib.. etc after mounting the vfat partition which also > contains a copy of /sbin and /bin untarred. Hmmm... aren't there important things in /lib, namely libc? I'm also not convinced that running /sbin and /bin binaries from a vfat partition is a good idea. I would instead make a few large files on the vfat partition, format them ext2, mount them via loopback and then copy /sbin and /bin to them. At least then you'll have proper permissions and symlinks etc will work. > 4) with fdisk remove /dev/hda5 (current / partition) and recreate it. > mkreiserfs /dev/hda5 It shouldn't be necessary to remove and recreate the partition with fdisk (unless you're planning to resize it, I guess). Just run mkreiserfs over it and see what happens. Matthew