Hi João,
Hi Rolf,
Your post cover many different subjects, so it is difficult to concentrate on the real issue, so a few brief notes:
-reiserfs is not supported under Alt-F, sorry. It was my fs of choice during years.
-fsck does not supports 64 bit features, which is now common. I have a e2fsck-1.42.13 pkg available, which supports 64 bit features accordingly to its documentation.I'm reluctant to make it available, as it has special installation requirements and it might cause troubles: Alt-F has to be installed on a USB pen or on a not otherwise used disk partition, otherwise fsck will "vanish" when the partition is unmounted to be checked. The experienced user will understand that, but might cause issues for normal users, which just install Alt-F packages in their main fs.
-Alt-F has to be installed on a ext2/3/4 filesystem, are you using vfat? "Interestingly" enough the destination fs type is checked when you try to copy the current Alt-F to a new fs (using Packages->Alt-F, CopyTo), but it is not detected at install time -- a bug!
-Creating Users is not really necessary, but it is "good practice" and useful to identify which is the more probable fs to be used by users. You can skip the first login wizard by just logout after creating the box password.
-swap will only be needed if fsck needs to run, so you can skip that for now. Do a fsck and a clean unmount on a linux box to avoid running Alt-F fsck and the the swap needed.I'm not sure if fsck will be called in this case, but go to Disk->filesystem unmount the RO marked fs, and edit the mount option to read "default" instead of "ro" and select "Set mnt options" under "FS operations", then mount again...
What is you more worrying issue?
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On 03/02/2020 11:38 AM, João Cardoso wrote:
Hi João,
Hi Rolf,Yes, I still use it and it is the format of all the Linux storage partitions I am migrating to the new 323. It's been some time since I set up Alt-F on a NAS and I did not read through the supported filesystem or other howto before jumping in. :P BTW, I tried with a desktop machine to convert the ~2TB reiserfs partition to ext4 with fstransform, https://github.com/cosmos72/fstransform but it failed for any number of reasons. I had gone the other way in the past, converted ext3/4 to reiserfs and was impressed.
Your post cover many different subjects, so it is difficult to concentrate on the real issue, so a few brief notes:
-reiserfs is not supported under Alt-F, sorry. It was my fs of choice during years.
Right. Those partitions were made on the desktop box with a newer e2fsck. I have since created an ext3 partition and copied the 1.8TB of files there. That is working.
-fsck does not supports 64 bit features, which is now common. I have a e2fsck-1.42.13 pkg available, which supports 64 bit features accordingly to its documentation.I'm reluctant to make it available, as it has special installation requirements and it might cause troubles: Alt-F has to be installed on a USB pen or on a not otherwise used disk partition, otherwise fsck will "vanish" when the partition is unmounted to be checked. The experienced user will understand that, but might cause issues for normal users, which just install Alt-F packages in their main fs.
ext4 = {features = has_journal,extent,huge_file,flex_bg,uninit_bg,64bit,dir_nlink,...
Following your notes, I managed to delete the Alt-F folder on vfat and put it on the new ext3 partition.-Alt-F has to be installed on a ext2/3/4 filesystem, are you using vfat? "Interestingly" enough the destination fs type is checked when you try to copy the current Alt-F to a new fs (using Packages->Alt-F, CopyTo), but it is not detected at install time -- a bug!
I have bumbled my way through and am making progress using the new 323 according to my plan to separate the large amount of slightly used storage off the desktop machine.
-Creating Users is not really necessary, but it is "good practice" and useful to identify which is the more probable fs to be used by users. You can skip the first login wizard by just logout after creating the box password.
On both the 4TB and 8TB disk I have shrunk the first partition (with the novice-friendly gparted on a desktop machine) and put a swap partition at the beginning. Both are being used.
-swap will only be needed if fsck needs to run, so you can skip that for now. Do a fsck and a clean unmount on a linux box to avoid running Alt-F fsck and the the swap needed.I'm not sure if fsck will be called in this case, but go to Disk->filesystem unmount the RO marked fs, and edit the mount option to read "default" instead of "ro" and select "Set mnt options" under "FS operations", then mount again...
I'm making progress, thank you. I'm now able to access and write to the new ext3 partition from the desktop. There is an error, 'No fsck command for ntfs-3g' for two ntfs partitions that I can't solve, however. I've got ntfs-3g and ntfs-3g-ntfsprogs installed, see below.
What is you more worrying issue?
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