Re: A "magical" HDD formatting question.

[Sthu Deus <sthu.deus@gmail.com>]

Thank You for Your time and answer, Tom:

> For example for / (assuming that it is sda1)
> 
> init 1
> mount -o remount,ro /
> fsck.ext2 -pf /dev/sda1
> tune2fs -O
> [has_journal,]large_file,huge_file,extents,dir_index,uninit_bg /dev/sda1
> fsck.ext2 -fD /dev/sda1
> init 6

I have tried that and as a problem arose (it wouldn't boot - mount
could not mount the device) and I read a lot of material on it - to
solve it, so I can say, I have missed here fstab modification before
mounting in ro mode - I destroyed all my work - the one I had before,
and the one I've done trying to perform the advices.

So, for those that would follow the way, I would warn, Think well
BEFORE what You gonna do - or You have to be a programmer or some
additional and trust worthy equipment - to restore things in case they
will go wrong - and they CAN go wrong... For the same OS said it sees a
dev, and at the same time it said, No such device!

Thanks for all who have participate. Let's finish the topic on this sad
end.