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REISERFSTUNE(8)                                                REISERFSTUNE(8)




NAME

       reiserfstune - The tunning tool for the ReiserFS filesystem.


SYNOPSIS

       reiserfstune  [  -f  ]  [  -j | --journal-device FILE ] [ --no-journal-
       available ] [ --journal-new-device FILE ] [ --make-journal-standard ] [
       -s  |  --journal-new-size  N  ]  [ -o | --journal-new-offset N ] [ -t |
       --max-transaction-size N ] [ -b | --add-badblocks file ] [ -B |  --bad
       blocks file ] [ -u | --uuid UUID ] [ -l | --label LABEL ] device


DESCRIPTION

       reiserfstune is used for tuning the ReiserFS. It can change two journal
       parameters (the journal size and the maximum transaction size), and  it
       can  move  the journal's location to a new specified block device. (The
       old ReiserFS's journal may be kept unused, or discarded at  the  user's
       option.)  Besides that reiserfstune can store the bad block list to the
       ReiserFS and set UUID and LABEL.  Note: At  the  time  of  writing  the
       relocated  journal  was  implemented for a special release of ReiserFS,
       and was not expected to be put into the mainstream kernel until approx-
       imately  Linux  2.5.   This means that if you have the stock kernel you
       must apply a special patch. Without this patch the kernel  will  refuse
       to mount the newly modified file system.  We will charge $25 to explain
       this to you if you ask us why it doesn't work.

       Perhaps the most interesting application of this code  is  to  put  the
       journal on a solid state disk.

       device is  the  special file corresponding to the newly specified block
              device (e.g /dev/hdXX for IDE disk partition  or  /dev/sdXX  for
              the SCSI disk partition).


OPTIONS

       -j | --journal-device FILE
              FILE  is  the  file name of the block device the file system has
              the current journal (the one prior to running reiserfstune)  on.
              This  option  is required when the journal is already on a sepa-
              rate device from the  main  data  device  (although  it  can  be
              avoided with --no-journal-available). If you don't specify jour-
              nal device by this option, reiserfstune suppose that journal  is
              on main device.

       --no-journal-available
              allows reiserfstune to continue when the current journal's block
              device is no longer available.  This might happen if a disk goes
              bad and you remove it (and run fsck).

       --journal-new-device FILE
              FILE is the file name of the block device which will contain the
              new journal for the file system.  If  you  don't  specify  this,
              reiserfstune   supposes   that   journal   device   remains  the
              same.

        -s | --journal-new-size N
              N is the size parameter for the new journal. When journal is  to
              be  on a separate device - its size defaults to number of blocks
              that device has. When journal is to be on the same device as the
              filesytem  - its size defaults to amount of blocks allocated for
              journal by mkreiserfs when it created the filesystem. Minimum is
              513 for both cases.

        -o | --journal-new-offset N
              N  is  an  offset  in blocks where journal will starts from when
              journal is to be on a separate device.  Default  is  0.  Has  no
              effect  when journal is to be on the same device as the filesys-
              tem.  Most users have no need to use this feature.   It  can  be
              used  when  you  want  the journals from multiple filesystems to
              reside on the same device, and you don't want to or cannot  par-
              tition that device.

        -t | --maximal-transaction-size N
              N is the maximum transaction size parameter for the new journal.
              The default, and max possible, value is 1024 blocks.  It  should
              be  less  than  half the size of the journal. If specifed incor-
              rectly, it will be adjusted.

        -b | --add-badblocks file
              File is the file name of the file  that  contains  the  list  of
              blocks  to  be marked as bad on the fs. The list is added to the
              fs list of bad blocks.

        -B | --badblocks file
              File is the file name of the file  that  contains  the  list  of
              blocks  to be marked as bad on the fs. The bad block list on the
              fs is cleared before the list specified in the File is added  to
              the fs.

       -f | --force
              Normally  reiserfstune will refuse to change a journal of a file
              system that was created before  this  journal  relocation  code.
              This  is  because  if you change the journal, you cannot go back
              (without special option --make-journal-standard) to an old  ker-
              nel  that  lacks this feature and be able to use your filesytem.
              This option forces it to do that. Specified more  than  once  it
              allows to avoid asking for confirmation.

       --make-journal-standard
              As  it was mentioned above, if your file system has non-standard
              journal, it can not be mounted on  the  kernel  without  journal
              relocation code. The thing can be changed, the only condition is
              that there is reserved area on main device of the standard jour-
              nal size 8193 blocks  (it will be so for instance if you convert
              standard journal to non-standard). Just specify this option when
              you  relocate journal back, or without relocation if you already
              have it on main device.

       -u | --uuid UUID
              Set  the  universally   unique   identifier  (  UUID  )  of  the
              filesystem  to  UUID (see also uuidgen(8)). The  format  of  the
              UUID  is  a series  of  hex  digits   separated   by   hypthens,
              like  this: "c1b9d5a2-f162-11cf-9ece-0020afc76f16".

       -l | --label LABEL
              Set   the   volume   label   of  the filesystem. LABEL can be at
              most 16 characters long; if it is  longer  than  16  characters,
              reiserfstune will truncate it.


POSSIBLE SCENARIOS OF USING REISERFSTUNE:

       1. You have ReiserFS on /dev/hda1, and you wish to have it working with
       its journal on the device /dev/journal

              boot kernel patched with special "relocatable journal support" patch
              reiserfstune /dev/hda1 --journal-new-device /dev/journal -f
              mount /dev/hda1 and use.
              You would like to change max transaction size to 512 blocks
              reiserfstune -t 512 /dev/hda1
              You would like to use your file system on another kernel that doesn't
              contain relocatable journal support.
              umount /dev/hda1
              reiserfstune /dev/hda1 -j /dev/journal --journal-new-device /dev/hda1 --make-journal-standard
              mount /dev/hda1 and use.

       2. You would like to have ReiserFS on /dev/hda1 and to be able to
       switch between different journals including journal located on the
       device containing the filesystem.

              boot kernel patched with special "relocatable journal support" patch
              mkreiserfs /dev/hda1
              you got solid state disk (perhaps /dev/sda, they typically look like scsi disks)
              reiserfstune --journal-new-device /dev/sda1 -f /dev/hda1
              Your scsi device dies, it is three in the morning, you have an extra IDE device
              lying around
              reiserfsck --no-journal-available /dev/hda1
              or
              reiserfsck --rebuild-tree --no-journal-available /dev/hda1
              reiserfstune --no-journal-available --journal-new-device /dev/hda1 /dev/hda1
              using /dev/hda1 under patched kernel


AUTHOR

       This version of reiserfstune  has  been  written  by  Vladimir  Demidov
       <vova@namesys.com> and Edward Shishkin <edward@namesys.com>.


BUGS

       Please    report   bugs   to   the   ReiserFS   developers   <reiserfs-
       dev@namesys.com>, providing as much information as possible--your hard-
       ware, kernel, patches, settings, all printed messages; check the syslog
       file for any related information.


SEE ALSO

       reiserfsck(8), debugreiserfs(8), mkreiserfs(8)





Reiserfsprogs-3.6.19             February 2004                 REISERFSTUNE(8)


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