Seth Mos wrote:
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> 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.
I don't have the installer disk...I am assuming you mean CD? I created
this by install to a hot swap disk on ext2, upgrade of kernel, creation
of xfs on a 2nd hot swap disk, copy to that disk, add lilo to that disk
(and appropriate fstab mods), then shutting down and swapping so that
the mirror is now boot disk, and other disk is mountable as a partition.
Then I wiped the original disk, formatted xfs, and remigrated back to
it. Except for this, which might or might not actually be xfs related,
it has been perfect.
My problem on cdrom burning is that this machine does not have a burner.
I have to create any image here, then try to load it to someone else's
machine (win 2k, which *really* sucks with its diluted cd burn
abilities) to burn. The transfer requires me to upload it from my
machine on 56k, then download from the other machine on a 33.6k. So
testing is *really* slow.
>
> > 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.
Maybe more people with 2.4.6-pre1-xfs or newer can comment on whether
xfs_repair with the -n option fails. It seems like what is broken is
that it says you can't run it on a mounted partition, even if it is -n
and won't write. If not, it seems that the call that responds with
"fatal error -- couldn't initialize XFS library" is saying that some
sort of internal function failed...don't know, I'm not familiar with it.
D. Stimits, stimits@xxxxxxxxxx
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