Linux

I didn't know how to format an unformatted drive under Linux. I attached a firewire case with an old 12 GB Macintosh-formatted HD to my computer. In order to format it with reiserfs, I used Yast2. I had to go to expert mode and rewrite the partition table. By this action Yast2 puts an entry into the fstab, that I modified to:

/dev/sda1 /media/firewire reiserfs noauto,user 0 0

since I don't want to have it connected every time I boot up. Instead I can now mount it as a regular user manually with:

mount /media/tmp/

When I booted my laptop today, I got the following error message:

Fsck failed. Please repair manually and reboot. The root file system is currently mounted read-only. To remount it read-write do: bash mount -n -o remount,rw / Attention: Only CONTROL-D will reboot the system in this maintainance mode. sgutdown or reboot will not work. Give root password to log in

I logged in and executed:

reiserfsck --fix-fixable /dev/hda7

Several error messages appeared, among them in the end:

VMware can interfere with Samba. When you are running a samba server on your computer and install VMware, you might break your samba server. You can check that by:

sudo /etc/init.d/smb status