On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 09:35:00AM +1000, Ralph Ronnquist wrote:
> On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 07:19:01PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> >
> > I've created a partition devuan-root in a volume group before this.
> >
> > I then create an ext4 file system in that partition
> >
> > But I cannot mount it.
> >
> >
> > april:~# mke2fs -n -t ext4 -j -L devuan-root /dev/VG-3T/devuan-root
>
> >From the man page:
> -n Causes mke2fs to not actually create a filesystem, but display
> what it would do if it were to create a filesystem. This can be
> used to determine the location of the backup superblocks for a
> particular filesystem, so long as the mke2fs parameters that
> were passed when the filesystem was originally created are used
> again. (With the -n option added, of course!)
>
> Ralph.
Of course! Where was my brain yesterday?
Realising my brain seemed to be absent, I decided that it would be best to stop doing things with my file system until I had had a good rest.
And that I should make sure I had a complete backup.
-- hendrik
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