Re: partman (and ext3)
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 06:25:32PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > On 16.I.2004 at 22:22 Bastian Blank wrote: > > > > There is no difference between mkfs.ext2 and mkfs.ext3, you just need to > > use the right name or specify -j. > > We prefer the functions in libparted to mkfs.* because using libparted > it is possible to show the user progress bar. However libparted > doesn't support ext3 (yet) I will look into ext3 support next week, if we can fix the subarch thingy before then. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: partman (and ext3)
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 02:00:43PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Hi Anton, thanks so much for partman. I am looking forward to trying it > out. What do you think about uploading it to unstable soon? > > I was looking at partman-ext3, and read that it cannot use parted and so > lacks a progress bar. I wonder, couldn't it instead use parted to make > an ext2 filesystem, with progress bar, and then simply tune2fs -j it? > This seems like a simple workaround.. This seem hacky. If someone helps me out with the subarch stuff, i will fix libparted to use libext2 or whatever it is called next week, and we will thus hopefully gain full ext3 support. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: partman (and ext3)
On 16.I.2004 at 22:22 Bastian Blank wrote: > > There is no difference between mkfs.ext2 and mkfs.ext3, you just need to > use the right name or specify -j. We prefer the functions in libparted to mkfs.* because using libparted it is possible to show the user progress bar. However libparted doesn't support ext3 hence the solution is to format the file system as ext2 and convert latter to ext3 using tune2fs. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: partman (and ext3)
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 10:40:04PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote: Weird things about ext3. There is no difference between mkfs.ext2 and mkfs.ext3, you just need to use the right name or specify -j. Bastian -- You can't evaluate a man by logic alone. -- McCoy, "I, Mudd", stardate 4513.3 signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: partman (and ext3)
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 02:00:43PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > What do you think about uploading it to unstable soon? I'd like to do some last changes before the upload. I am going to upload the packages on 20 January. > I was looking at partman-ext3, and read that it cannot use parted and so > lacks a progress bar. I wonder, couldn't it instead use parted to make > an ext2 filesystem, with progress bar, and then simply tune2fs -j it? > This seems like a simple workaround.. I didn't implement it that way because tune2fs is not included in any udeb (I think). Currently even for ext2 partman doesn't use parted (the code to use parted exists but is commented). This is because after too many repartitionings of my hard disk ;-) somethign happened and now parted is not able any more to format even swap space. One of the things I want to change before the upload is to use parted and show progress bars whenever possible and mkfs.* as fallback when parted fails to format some partition. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
partman (and ext3)
Hi Anton, thanks so much for partman. I am looking forward to trying it out. What do you think about uploading it to unstable soon? I was looking at partman-ext3, and read that it cannot use parted and so lacks a progress bar. I wonder, couldn't it instead use parted to make an ext2 filesystem, with progress bar, and then simply tune2fs -j it? This seems like a simple workaround.. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature