On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, D. Stimits wrote:
> Seth Mos wrote:
> I'll do some more testing tonight. But it does sound like an earlier
> reply about not updating mtab before remount could be the problem for
> the read-only flag not being correct. For xfs_repair itself, it is from
> 2.4.6-pre1-xfs cvs. I'll try recompiling it later. As for unmounting,
> how do you do this with the root partition (no rescue floppies have
> worked so far, and I am struggling to create an ISO image for CD and
> then burn it from a windows machine...the linux machine doesn't have a
> burner, and windows insists on turning anything I do into a UDF
> filesystem regular file).
The Linux XFS installer disk doubles as a rescue disk
Just type rescue at the prompt.
What software are you using to burn CD's? I have made installer disks
using cdrecord on linux nero and Easy CD creator under windows. All of
them have a burn cd from image option.
> Are there significant changes to xfs_repair later than those of
> 2.4.6-pre1-xfs?
Not that I know of but I can't get it to work anymore too.
Don't if something broke or if it was a change in behaviuour.
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