21 Aug
2018
21 Aug
'18
9:36 a.m.
On Tue, 21 Aug 2018 09:08:55 -0400
Gene Heskett <gheskett(a)shentel.net> wrote:
On Tuesday 21 August 2018 08:21:12 Nick Koretsky
wrote:
If you need a shared partition between wheezy and stretch create it in
wheezy.
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Nick Koretsky (nick.koretsky(a)gmail.com)
On Tue, 21 Aug 2018 12:55:28 +0200
"Dr. Nikolaus Klepp" <office(a)klepp.biz> wrote:
+100
Now the question of the day is how the hell do we fix it?
Am Dienstag, 21. August 2018 schrieb Nick
Koretsky:
Yep. Exactly my thought when i spent 3-hours with a server refusing to
boot after migration to a new hdd (i used a stretch flash to copy).
Who the fuck toughs it was a good idea?!! Why not call it ext5 or
ext4a or whatever?!! On Tue, 21 Aug 2018 09:20:43 +0200
"Dr. Nikolaus Klepp" <office(a)klepp.biz> wrote:
> > Its tears so far Nik. There are so many differences just in
> > the ext4's used that one of them should be renamed, they will
> > NOT cross mount, ext4 disk to ext4 mount.
>
> Hi Gene!
>
> When you cannot mount the ext4 partions from one another, then
> there is something very wrong. ext4 can be mounted as ext2 and
> that should alway work - at least, if the drives and filesystems
> are ok.
No, you are wrong. There were options added to ext4 which made it
incompatible with older kernels. And a few years ago they made
this options default. Debian wheezy kernel (3.2) would not mount
ext4 created in debian stretch.
Hi!
Now that's a gotcha I did not know. How did it come that this was
thought of beeing a good idea?
Nik