Re: d-i does not show jfs in partition tool
Sure, I gonna try to help you.
Please test only if you feel confident to do so, as I don't want you to
break your nslu. (I have a Thecus, and on this I now how to load a
recovery system. But on the nslu, I have not glue)
I'm not sure that I understood you correctly: Did you mean with
> Can you will help me for migrating one partition to jfs and detecting
> the possible bug?
that your harddrive is already formated and contains data. Here you'd
probably need anyway backup to a different location before switching to
another filesystem. And then, the plan is the same as if the harddrive
would be empty.
If your harddrive is still empty, I suggest that you just reserve one
partition for the testing and later overwrite it the final partition.
For debian, 10G is more than plenty space. If you choose ext2 for the
time being, you can also later resize the partion, if you favour a
one-partition solution.
For the procedure to find the bug, I have to recall my memories...
Just tell me if you ready to try it, and I try to assemble these
memories into a mail ;-)
coldtobi
On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 18:19 +0200, Xan wrote:
> OKay. / and all other patitions are ext3 (except of one that are ext2).
> Can you will help me for migrating one partition to jfs and detecting
> the possible bug?
>
> Thanks,
> Xan.
>
> En/na Tobias Frost ha escrit:
> > You could test it....
> > Make an ext3 for root, just big enough for debian, install debian and
> > then -- like I did -- make a data partition to play with.
> >
> > If the bug is still there, it will manifest rather quick.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 17:20 +0200, Xan wrote:
> >
> >> First of all, thanks for answering....
> >>
> >> En/na Tobias Frost ha escrit:
> >>
> >>> When I installed my Thecus N2100, I had the same. But thats half an year
> >>> ago. (As I wanted xfs not for the root fs it was not an issue. The
> >>> partition planed to hold this fs was a dm-mapped (luKS-crypted) one)
> >>>
> >> So, it's probably a not solved bug....
> >>
> >>> After installing one could part I it with [xj]js: However, I got servere
> >>> filesystem issues both with xfs and jfs.
> >>>
> >>> I don't know which one causes which problem, but be warned:
> >>> - One of these created only a partion of 5-hundred-something Megabytes
> >>> on a 700G space. Couldn't convince it ....
> >>> - The other one partitinoed fine, but during benchmarking [as far as i
> >>> remember I used ltp - The Linux Test Project test suite] I got
> >>> filesystem corruptions. On top xfs-fsck segfaulted on this. It occured
> >>> at least two times in a row, so I expect a bug rather coincidence
> >>> However, I did not debug the issue. The problem could be gone (as this
> >>> was at 2.6.18), but you should be aware of it.
> >>>
> >>>
> >> Wow!!.
> >> Could anyone confirm if these bugs are fixed?
> >> If don't, I will think to pass to classical ext3 ;-)
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Xan.
> >>
> >>> coldtobi
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 16:11 +0200, Xan wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> I have a nslu2. Yesterday I downloaded debian armel-5.0beta2 from
> >>>> [http://www.slug-firmware.net/d-dls.php] and followed the instructions
> >>>> from [http://www.cyrius.com/debian/nslu2/install.html] (I flashed with
> >>>> upslug2 my slug).
> >>>>
> >>>> Well, in module selection step I choose, among others partman-jfs for
> >>>> formating my usb harddisk, but when I format one partition, JFS does not
> >>>> appears among options. If I choose partman-xfs for example xfs appears
> >>>> among these.
> >>>>
> >>>> So it seems we have a bug or so?
> >>>> Can anyone help me: now I have a aborted installation in my slug.
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks a lot,
> >>>> Xan.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
>
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