[NTLUG:Discuss] repartitioning 2nd hard drive and formatting w/Reiser - HOW?

[Richard Geoffrion]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Bickel" <eusmb at exu.ericsson.se>
>
> > I've finally copied everything off of /dev/hdc (which used to
> > be my old server hard drive) I want to repartition it and format it for
use
> > with the ReiserFS.
> >
> > The only problem is that I now realize that I've never formatted a
partition
> > in Linux outside of the installation routines!  Partitioning I can
> > handle....but I doubt format /dev/hdc /u /v:extraspace  is gonna help me
> > any.
> >
> > ok..one of my searches paid off.  would this command do the job?  Do I
need
> > to create a swap space on that drive too or is just one swap space on
> > /dev/hda sufficient?
> >
> > mkfs -t reiserfs  /dev/hdc1
> >
> > Then is there a command to mount it and add it to /etc/fstab or do I
have to
> > edit the fstab manually?
>
> man fdisk
> man mkfs
> man fsck
> man mount
> man sync
> man mkswap
> man swapon
> man fstab

From: "Dan Carlson" <dmcarlsn at yahoo.com>
> Use mkreiserfs to format a reiserfs partition.

All right! Those are good to know.
I'll add mkreiserfs to that, (thanks

>
> You didn't say what distro/version you're running.

Slackware 8.0 with the ReiserFS compiled in.

>While there are various GUI
> front ends that will help you do this,
No GUI's please...ug.. Real men use the command line!

> I think you're better off knowing how to
> do this from the CLI, 'cause you may find yourself in a situation where X
won't
> start and if you're dependent on an X-based GUI then you're stuck!

oh..right..yeah..my (unarticulated) point exactly!
>
{snip the swap partition comments - no addl. swap space needed - thanks}

{snip the mount to fstab comments - edit fstab by hand is recommended}

All right...I'm in business...Thanks all!

-Richard <-- learning more every day....well, not according to my wife but
that's a different story...