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Re: painted into a corner

From Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: painted into a corner
Date 2018-08-22 04:00 +0200
Message-ID <wpqBb-1rx-7@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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On 08/21/2018 05:29 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 August 2018 18:33:50 Jimmy Johnson wrote:
> 
>> On 08/19/2018 12:40 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> Greetings all;
>>>
>>> I just installed stretch to a fresh 2T HD. letting it autopartition
>>> and format for separate /, swap, /var and /home partitions. But I
>>> didn't let it overwrite the grub on the 1st drive it was/is  booting
>>> wheezy from.
>>>
>>> I figured I'd mount it to wheezy and copy over my personal stuff,
>>> like an email corpus well over 15GB reaching back to 2002.
>>>
>>> But I can't mount much of the drive, / is all that will actually
>>> mount, because the 2 versions of ext4 are incompatible, nearly all
>>> the mount and e2tools can't touch the installers ext4 file systems.
>>>
>>> For instance, its not mounted:
>>> gene@coyote:~$ e2fsck /dev/sdb8
>>> e2fsck 1.42.5 (29-Jul-2012)
>>> /dev/sdb8 has unsupported feature(s): metadata_csum
>>> e2fsck: Get a newer version of e2fsck!
>>>
>>> And of course whats installed to wheezy is the latest available
>>> wheezy version of e2fsck.
>>>
>>> Whats the recommended way to do these mounts so I can maintain as
>>> much continuity as possible?
>>>
>>> Thanks all.
>>
>> Hi Gene, I've seen this before, a few times. If you run #fdisk -l
>> while in stretch and get error, you need to fix that first, using
>> gparted move the ailing partition '1'byte, just one digit larger or
>> smaller, if you have to shrink another partition, do it '2'bytes. UUID
>> will not change and it will pass fdisk -l no error.  Now in wheezy see
>> if you can mount. If not you can disable the checksums. To disable
>> checksums on an existing filesystem, ensure that the filesystem will
>> pass fsck. Then turn off metadata_csum via tune2fs.
>>        #tune2fs -O ^metadata_csum /dev/path/to/disk
>>
>> The above is for ext4, for repairing partition I use this with force.
>>            #fsck.ext4 -pvcf /dev/sdxx
> 
> Thanks Jimmy. I haven't gotten that far, as I've done 6 or 7 installs
> today and it will not install grub on anything but /dev/sda.


Run #fdisk -l, only takes a moment...If you have a bad partition-table, 
formatting will not fix it.
-- 
Jimmy Johnson

Slackware64 14.2 - Just Say No! To SystemD, Plasma5 & Drugs!
KDE 4.14.32 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda9
Registered Linux User #380263

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painted into a corner Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-08-19 21:50 +0200
  Re: painted into a corner john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2018-08-19 22:40 +0200
    Re: painted into a corner Eike Lantzsch <zp6cge@gmx.net> - 2018-08-19 23:20 +0200
      Re: painted into a corner Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-08-20 00:00 +0200
        Re: painted into a corner Eike Lantzsch <zp6cge@gmx.net> - 2018-08-20 14:30 +0200
          Re: painted into a corner Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-08-20 16:30 +0200
  Re: painted into a corner David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-08-19 23:40 +0200
    Re: painted into a corner Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-08-20 03:10 +0200
      Re: painted into a corner Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-08-20 20:00 +0200
        Re: painted into a corner Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-08-20 20:10 +0200
      Re: painted into a corner Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-08-20 20:00 +0200
        Re: painted into a corner Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-08-20 22:50 +0200
          Re: painted into a corner Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2018-08-21 01:50 +0200
            Re: painted into a corner David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-08-21 02:20 +0200
              Re: painted into a corner Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2018-08-21 03:20 +0200
  Re: painted into a corner David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-08-20 06:20 +0200
  Re: painted into a corner Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2018-08-20 07:10 +0200
  Re: painted into a corner Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-08-20 15:40 +0200
    Re: painted into a corner Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-08-20 16:40 +0200
      Re: painted into a corner Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-08-20 17:20 +0200
        Re: painted into a corner Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-08-20 22:30 +0200
          Re: painted into a corner Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-08-20 23:10 +0200
            Re: painted into a corner Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2018-08-21 02:00 +0200
              Re: painted into a corner Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-08-21 03:20 +0200
                Re: painted into a corner Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2018-08-21 03:30 +0200
          Re: painted into a corner David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-08-21 02:10 +0200
            Re: painted into a corner Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-08-21 03:30 +0200
              Re: painted into a corner Timothy M Butterworth <timothy.m.butterworth@gmail.com> - 2018-08-21 03:40 +0200
              Re: painted into a corner Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-08-21 14:40 +0200
  Re: painted into a corner Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2018-08-20 17:30 +0200
    Re: painted into a corner Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-08-20 22:30 +0200
      Re: painted into a corner Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2018-08-21 03:20 +0200
        Re: painted into a corner David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-08-21 19:40 +0200
          Re: painted into a corner Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2018-08-22 00:40 +0200
  Re: painted into a corner Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2018-08-22 00:40 +0200
    Re: painted into a corner Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-08-22 02:30 +0200
      Re: painted into a corner Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-08-22 03:10 +0200
      Re: painted into a corner Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2018-08-22 04:00 +0200
        Re: painted into a corner Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-08-22 04:30 +0200
      Re: painted into a corner Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2018-08-22 04:10 +0200
        Re: painted into a corner Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-08-22 04:30 +0200
          Re: painted into a corner David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-08-22 05:10 +0200
            Re: painted into a corner Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-08-22 05:30 +0200
              Re: painted into a corner David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-08-23 03:20 +0200
            Re: painted into a corner Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-08-23 06:10 +0200

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