In <[🔎] 4B93556D.8070908@cox.net>, Ron Johnson wrote: >On 2010-03-06 21:11, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> In <[🔎] 4B92A531.6090200@cox.net>, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 2010-03-06 09:41, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >>>> In <[🔎] 20100306015538.GP11387@wasteland.homelinux.net>, Jochen Schulz wrote: >>>>> Mark: >>>>>> [H]ow do I overwrite an existing partition (hda2 for example) with all >>>>>> zeros >>>>> >>>>> Why do you think you need to blank the partition before installing >>>>> lenny? >>>> >>>> [reiserfs] might link files from the old file system into >>>> lost+found. >>> >>> Non sequiter? >> >> Not really. >> >> 1. Old installation using one of more reiserfs file systems. >> 2. Install Lenny without wiping; use one or more reiserfs file systems. >> 3. Worst-case scenario file system failure. >> 4. (reiserfsck --rebuild-tree) -> Links files from the old file system >> into the new file system. > >You're joking. You *must* be joking. No, sir. That said, I've never personally experienced it. >But then, I never did --rebuild-tree. I've only had to do it once or twice. >While I had lots of problems with ReiserFS 3, v3.5 was really darned >stable. Only reason I moved away from it was that it was >undermaintained. I continue to use it despite it's few warts. I do want to move away from it, but I'm hoping to put it off until a stable BTrFS is available in Sid. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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