Re: A "magical" HDD formatting question.
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Sthu Deus <sthu.deus@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
I'm sorry that something went wrong for you but I have used this
procedure a few times without a hitch (over a dozen times if I include
tests). In the same way that I forgot to add an fstab edit line to
this procedure above, I have forgotten to edit fstab a few of those
times also without any problems because an ext4 filesystem can be
mounted as an ext2 filesystem.
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