On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 10:43:42PM -0600, dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu wrote: >I know a lot of people on the list have played with ReiserFS, so maybe some >of you have seen my problem before. I had a few spare moments this weekend >and decided to play with the 2.4.1 kernel and ReiserFS. I've got ReiserFS >support compiled in and I downloaded, compiled and installed the newest >reiserfs-utils. I have a RAID and I had a have a spare 50 GB partition >laying around, so I figured, what the hell :) Anyway, mkreiserfs went >without a hitch: Software RAID or HW RAID? It matters, there are some locking issues with certain types of software RAID and journaled filesystems. > >ATTENTION: ALL DATA WILL BE LOST ON '/dev/sda6'! (y/n)y >journal size 8192 (from 18) >Initializing journal - 0%....20%....40%....60%....80%....100% >Syncing..done. > >but I can't mount the drive > ># mount /dev/sda6 /mnt/reiser >mount: /dev/sda6 has wrong major or minor number A quote from reiserfs.org FAQ "I get the following message: mount: /dev/hda5 has wrong major or minor number reiserfs is not compiled in and not available as a module." Sure you're booting with the right kernel? I've built kernels before and didn't run lilo on them and had this happen. > >When I look at this partition in fdisk, it has a ext2 type (because I set >it that way at one point), and there is no option to set the label to >ReiserFS. No. > >Any help figuring this out would be greatly appreciated. >TIA, > >Gabe > >-- >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Gabe Turner | X-President, >UNIX Systems Administrator, | Assoc. for Computing Machinery >U of M Supercomputing Institute for | University of Minnesohta >Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation | dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu > >"If a god of love and life ever did exist, he's long since dead... > Someone, some _thing_, rules in his place." > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >_______________________________________________ >tclug-list mailing list >tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- Ben Lutgens cell: 612.670.4789 telnet bofh.jive.org 666 Sistina Software Inc. work: 612.379.5941 System Administrator http://www.sistina.com/ Sistina is hiring, see http:/www.sistina.com/Pages/jobs.html for details -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 230 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20010211/f0f1be38/attachment.pgp