free space advice. (solved)

Colin J Thomson colin at g6avk.demon.co.uk
Wed Oct 20 12:53:26 UTC 2004


On Tuesday 19 Oct 2004 23:22, Colin J Thomson wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 Oct 2004 23:12, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 16:08 -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> > > Start with Google and the list archives at MARC
> > > (marc.theaimsgroup.com) while I see if I can pull this out of the
> > > back of my cobwebs.
> >
> > Ah, here you go. Long live MARC and Chris Adams at Hiwaay; the search
> > ("filesystem incompatible feature enabled") took less than 10 seconds:
> >
> > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-list&m=109053089029082&w=2
>
> Excellent! you beat me to it :) looks like a very useful Site as well.
>
> I will give this a shot in the morning and hope to report my success,
> fingers crossed.

Answering my last Email

Well, I struggled with this all morning :( and still that dam error was 
appearing. So...

I bit the bullet rebooted from the old drive and dropped to telinit 1 and 
deleted sda2 and fdisk'd etc a new sda2. 
I then copyed all the files from my backup drive, to the new partition 
(sda2) using cp -ax * /  /where_the_drive_is 
and guess what it worked fine :) 
Before the reboot I did the usual Label editing on the old drive, in that I 
"renamed" the  /boot and root on the other drive to avoid conflicts..

Usefull link for others:

http://www.storm.ca/~yan/Hard-Disk-Upgrade.html#Part3

FYI the new SATA Drive now shows:

[root at localhost colinjt]# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2              74G   19G   52G  27% /
/dev/sda1              99M   11M   84M  11% /boot
none                  253M     0  253M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda2              37G   19G   17G  53% /mnt/old_ide0

[root at localhost colinjt]# fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9964 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1          13      104391   83  Linux
/dev/sda2              14        9793    78557850   83  Linux
/dev/sda3            9794        9964     1373557+  82  Linux swap

What a great way to learn *nix

Cheers all,

Colin.
PS was I correct to add (solved) to the Subj?
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