Topic: Hard Disk Reformat Needed

[jdarrough]

I am running SME 6.5RC1 and have had a crash (actually lost power, ups went down, you know the rest). I used Mke2fsck and reformatted the bad drive via root command line, and the system is back up and working (it was on a data drive that wasn't even mounted). When I boot now,  SME screams at me that it has the wrong file format, blah blah and then boots up and works fine.

How do I reformat this drive with the proper file system? I think it's e3fsck, journalled.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks, Jim Darrough

[CharlieBrady]

How do I reformat this drive with the proper file system? I think it's e3fsck, journalled.

Reinstall, then restore from backup.

[jdarrough]

How do I reformat this drive with the proper file system? I think it's e3fsck, journalled.

Reinstall, then restore from backup.

So there's no way to reformat a data drive from the command line without a complete re-install? That sounds a little inefficient. Thanks for your help though. Maybe another SME Guru knows a way to just reformat.

[CharlieBrady]

So there's no way to reformat a data drive from the command line without a complete re-install?

Sure there is.

That sounds a little inefficient.

Formatting the drive is just the start of it; you then need to put the right files and directories in place, etc. Re-installing and restoring will likely prove most efficient.

Unless, that is, you know exactly what you are doing and what you need to do. In which case, you wouldn't be asking here, right?