Cannonfodder Posted March 23, 2003 Report Share Posted March 23, 2003 So what you are saying is: e.g. 1. partimage of a ext3 size 1 gig (making up the size) 2. reformat a 2 gig hard drive with reiserfs 3. restore ext3 partimage (1 gig) to the 2 gig resierfs It is not totally a ext3 partition? If so, then that's a bug. It shouldn't do that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MottS Posted March 23, 2003 Report Share Posted March 23, 2003 I'm not 100% sure what happened. But basically what you are saying is what I think that happened. Here is the story --> http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php...1428&highlight= Maybe you can figure out what was going on.. MOttS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted March 23, 2003 Report Share Posted March 23, 2003 I'm not sure what is going on either. One thing you can do to resolve the situation is 1. wipe drive 2. create 2 partitions. reiserfs (hda1) and ext3 (hda2). Both large enough to hold files from image. 3. Restore ext3 image to ext3 partition 4. boot off of CD1 and manually mount both partitions e.g. /mnt/hda1 and /mnt/hda2 (just directories) 5. type cp -pax /mnt/hda2/* /mnt/hda1 6. Make sure /mnt/hda1 fstab is correct and run lilo. You may have to reboot with CD1, mount /mnt with hda1, and chroot /mnt to make it active. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MottS Posted March 23, 2003 Report Share Posted March 23, 2003 well, thx cannonfodder but since then (december 2002) I reformated the drive and put Gentoo on it. I just wanted to warn willisoften that putting an ntfs partition on a fat32 one could really screw things up.. specially with Windows ... :lol: But he should not have any problems to image his ntfs partition and put back the image on an ntfs partition. I hope .. If it doesn't work then have fun reinstalling Windows because it is not 'rescuable' as much as Linux for sure. :? MOttS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted March 23, 2003 Report Share Posted March 23, 2003 :) I'm too eager to help LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest GorGor Posted March 25, 2003 Report Share Posted March 25, 2003 Hi Just a thought, when you restored an image using a different fs say reiser to ext3, Did you consider trying to restore the mbr from the source image file as well? I don't know a lot but I am hoping this will solve the boot confusion Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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