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dob
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 Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2003 12:08 pm Post subject: Problems creating and mounting a reiserfs partition |
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I always used ext2/3 so far, but I wanted to try out reiserfs since some say it is better / faster
Here's how my HD is partitioned. Planned reiserfs partition is /dev/hda6
| Code: | cfdisk 2.11z
Disk Drive: /dev/hda
Size: 80026361856 bytes, 80.0 GB
Heads: 255 Sectors per Track: 63 Cylinders: 9729
Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Label] Size (MB)
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hda1 Boot Primary Win95 FAT32 4721,32
hda5 Logical Win95 FAT32 (LBA) 65514,36
hda6 Logical Linux 5116,13
hda7 Logical Linux ext3 4671,96 |
After I wrote the partition table with cfdisk, and rebooted like mkreiserfs suggests, I tried to format /dev/hda6 to reiserfs
| Code: | bruce-lee mnt # mkreiserfs /dev/hda6
<-------------mkreiserfs, 2002------------->
reiserfsprogs 3.6.4
mkreiserfs: Guessing about desired format..
mkreiserfs: Kernel 2.4.19-fl-2 is running.
Format 3.6 with standard journal
Count of blocks on the device: 1249045
Number of blocks consumed by mkreiserfs formatting process: 8250
Blocksize: 4096
Hash function used to sort names: "r5"
Journal Size 8193 blocks (first block 18)
Journal Max transaction length 1024
inode generation number: 0
UUID: b7b6b74e-8bad-426d-9318-fee144e72b82
ATTENTION: YOU SHOULD REBOOT AFTER FDISK!
ALL DATA WILL BE LOST ON '/dev/hda6'!
Continue (y/n):Y
bruce-lee mnt # |
But when I try to mount it...
| Code: | bruce-lee mnt # mount /dev/hda6 /mnt/debian/ -t reiserfs
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda6,
or too many mounted file systems |
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lsmod | grep reiserfs ; emerge -s reiserfs
reiserfs 176848 1 (autoclean)
Searching...
[ Results for search key : reiserfs ]
[ Applications found : 2 ]
* dev-libs/progsreiserfs
Latest version available: 0.3.0.4
Latest version installed: 0.3.0.4
Size of downloaded files: 301 kB
Homepage: http://reiserfs.linux.kiev.ua/
Description: A library for accessing and manipulating reiserfs partitions
* sys-apps/reiserfsprogs
Latest version available: 3.6.4-r1
Latest version installed: 3.6.4-r1
Size of downloaded files: 324 kB
Homepage: http://www.namesys.com
Description: Reiserfs Utilities |
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vikwiz
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| Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2003 3:44 pm Post subject: Re: Problems creating and mounting a reiserfs partition |
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| dob wrote: | After I wrote the partition table with cfdisk, and rebooted like mkreiserfs suggests, I tried to format /dev/hda6 to reiserfs
| Code: | ...
ATTENTION: YOU SHOULD REBOOT AFTER FDISK!
ALL DATA WILL BE LOST ON '/dev/hda6'!
Continue (y/n):Y
bruce-lee mnt # |
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There should be some more prints after pressing 'yes', as far as I remember.
Sounds stupid, but don't you have CapsLock pressed? 
Seems you have pressed capital 'Y', which maybe wrong... |
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dob
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| Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2003 6:55 pm Post subject: |
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eeewwwwwwww
/me bangs his head on his desk
You were right it worked with a lowercase y 
I took the habit of always responding with a capital Y or N when I'm asked this kind of questions, and I never expected my problem could come from that. I spent like two hours reading all the reiserfs documentation I could find and searching help in vain on google
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vikwiz
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| Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2003 8:36 pm Post subject: Rebooting |
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Yes, it happens sometimes...
Anyway, it's a good opportunity to patch mkreiserfs.
It's definitely a bug, although not so big.
About rebooting: I never rebooted since years when fdisk tells I should, and it works without problems. SCSI or IDE, doesn't matter. But it's still telling I should. Others had any fault with this? I even repartitioned drives with mounted partitions on it, without any problems. |
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