On Friday 14 October 2005 13:40, Wiktor Wandachowicz wrote: > Recently I've changed a filesystem on one of my patitions from ext3 to > reiserfs 3.6. > > All of my partitions have labels (hint: "mke2fs -L") so at boot I can easily > see > which partitions are fsck-ed. So while reformatting my last partition > /dev/hda8 > as reiserfs 3.6, I've labeled it too (hint: "mkreiserfs -l"). > > Alas, upon boot reiserfsck never displays a volume label set this way, only: > > Reiserfs super block in block 16 on 0x307 of format 3.6 with standard journal > > While ext2/ext3 fsck displays a neat message for every partition it checks, > like: > > BOOT: clean, 62/297256 files, 60311/594405 blocks > > > So, I wanted to ask you: is adding such a functionality to reiserfsck a good > idea? > I've tried to add it myself and it turned out to be four lines in one source > file > (well, two lines actually doing the job, because one line is a comment and > another > one contains a curly bracket). I have a small patch against > reiserfsprogs-3.6.19 > (applicable to the 3.6.18 and 3.6.17) ready to be sent. > > Now my reiserfsck tests if volume label exists, and in such case displays it > like: > > SPARE: Reiserfs super block in block 16 on 0x307 of format 3.6 with standard > journal > > > And yes, I know it's cosmetic :-) > > But for me it's nice to have. This way my system behaves in a more consistent > way. > Maintainers I asked from my distribution suggested to ask my question at the > source. > What is your opinion then, reiserfs people?
ok, I will add it. -- Vitaly
