a few questions about Weaknees ISO

[bbauman99]

1) The instructions say to use -r 4 to mfsrestore, but the usage message for mfsrestore says -X specifies the scale factor. Which is correct (or are both correct...). Is there any way to tell what the scale factor is on an existing disk?

2) Does the mfsbackup/mfsrestore on the ISO create the newer, bigger root partitions, or does it hardwire the sizes to the older, smaller size?

3) After doing a backup/restore and specifying a 300 meg swap partition, the swap is NOT initialized correctly as I can tell from a serial console. If I use tpip to initialize it after the fact it is OK. Is this a known issue, or am I doing something wrong?

4) Why does the "new" disk have more partitions than the original?

[WK-Michael]

1 - The '-r 4' is right. What instructions are you referring to?

2 - All partitions except additions are the same size as the originals.

3 - That's right. That's why we always recommend a 127 MB swap.

4 - For the additional storage space.

[bbauman99]

Thanks for the quick reply.

The usage message if you invoke mfsrestore with no arguments says -X is the "scale factor" and doesn't mention -r. I wondered which was correct. I also wondered if there is any way to tell what the scale factor is on an existing filesystem.

[WK-JSP]

Thanks for the quick reply.

The usage message if you invoke mfsrestore with no arguments says -X is the "scale factor" and doesn't mention -r. I wondered which was correct. I also wondered if there is any way to tell what the scale factor is on an existing filesystem.-r is correct. The help information built into mfstools is wrong for this option.

-r controls the minimum allocation unit in the Media File System database. It turns out for partitions larger than ~274GB, the default value (-r 2) is too small and results in a drive that won't boot.

As far the swap and partition sizes: both these issues are addressed in the newer weaknees_sata.iso version of mfstools, but not in the older isos. Details here (http://www.wkforums.com/forums/showthread.php?p=395#post395).