[gentoo-user] reiserfsck failing.

2009-08-14 Thread William Kenworthy
I am trying increase a large reiserfs partition - from ~680GB to ~1.6TB - the lvm part has worked as has resize_reiserfs, when trying to do a final reiserfsck it hangs - always on a different file but in a simlar directory. The kernel doesnt have large file support, but I thinks thats for over 2T

Re: [gentoo-user] reiserfsck failing.

2009-08-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 14 August 2009 13:36:31 William Kenworthy wrote: > I am trying increase a large reiserfs partition - from ~680GB to ~1.6TB > - the lvm part has worked as has resize_reiserfs, when trying to do a > final reiserfsck it hangs - always on a different file but in a simlar > directory. The ke

Re: [gentoo-user] reiserfsck failing.

2009-08-14 Thread William Kenworthy
On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 13:38 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 14 August 2009 13:36:31 William Kenworthy wrote: > > I am trying increase a large reiserfs partition - from ~680GB to ~1.6TB > > - the lvm part has worked as has resize_reiserfs, when trying to do a > > final reiserfsck it hangs -

Re: [gentoo-user] reiserfsck failing.

2009-08-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:02:53 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > Nothing critical stored there - mythtv recordings, Don't the MythTV folks advise against using ReiserFS for recordings? They recommend XFS. -- Neil Bothwick Several errant electrons jumped when they shouldn't have at a place they

Re: [gentoo-user] reiserfsck failing.

2009-08-14 Thread William Kenworthy
On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 13:10 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:02:53 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > > > Nothing critical stored there - mythtv recordings, > > Don't the MythTV folks advise against using ReiserFS for recordings? They > recommend XFS. > They do - as I discove

Re: [gentoo-user] reiserfsck failing.

2009-08-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 14 August 2009 14:27:09 William Kenworthy wrote: > That being said, it would be nice to separate the recordings and backups > though one large partition makes for easier management. And there is > the fact that some maintenance patches to reiserfs mean I cant use > kernels 2.6.29-30 (oop

Re: [gentoo-user] reiserfsck failing.

2009-08-14 Thread William Kenworthy
On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 14:37 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 14 August 2009 14:27:09 William Kenworthy wrote: > > That being said, it would be nice to separate the recordings and backups > > though one large partition makes for easier management. And there is > > the fact that some maintena

Re: [gentoo-user] reiserfsck failing.

2009-08-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 14 August 2009 14:47:26 William Kenworthy wrote: > On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 14:37 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Friday 14 August 2009 14:27:09 William Kenworthy wrote: > > > That being said, it would be nice to separate the recordings and > > > backups though one large partition makes f