You should check for the version of reiserfs that you are using. IF you have created your file systems on a more recent version older versions might have some problems recognizing it.
On Thursday 29 November 2001 07:06 am, Dougie Nisbet wrote: > I have an Supemicro 370DDE machine with 4 40GB hardrives. > The Chipset on the mobo is the Apollo Pro 266. > I have applied the Reiser patch to the 2.2.19pre17 kernel. > The options have appeared for Reiser in make xconfig, and they're selected. > The kernel has re-compiled fine. > > I also have Mandrake 8 installed. Mandrake sees my reiser filesystems ok, > and they were in fact created using Mandrake. > > When I try mounting a reiser file system using potato, I get the following: > >>> tbird2:~# mount -t reiserfs /dev/hda10 /spare > >>> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda10, > >>> or too many mounted file systems > > I wondered if there was some subtle difference between the way Mandrake > made reiser file systems and the reiserfsprogs-3.x.0j utils that I > installed on potato. > So I deleted the parition, and used mkreiserfs under potato. > The partition is created with no errors, and I reboot. reiserfsck thinks > it's fine too. But I cannot mount the file system. > > Thanks to nate for giving me a few things to check. Such as ensuring that the partition is type 83: > >>> tbird2:~# fdisk -l /dev/hda > >>> > >>> Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 5005 cylinders > >>> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes > >>> > >>> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > >>> /dev/hda1 * 1 781 6273351 b Win95 FAT32 > >>> /dev/hda2 782 5005 33929280 85 Linux extended > >>> /dev/hda5 782 817 289138+ 82 Linux swap > >>> /dev/hda6 818 1425 4883728+ 83 Linux > >>> /dev/hda7 1426 2130 5662881 83 Linux > >>> /dev/hda8 2131 3194 8546548+ 83 Linux > >>> /dev/hda9 3195 4292 8819653+ 83 Linux > >>> /dev/hda10 4293 5005 5727141 83 Linux > > The kernel has reiser support: > >>> tbird2:/proc# cat filesystems > >>> ext2 > >>> reiserfs > >>> umsdos > >>> msdos > >>> vfat > >>> nodev proc > >>> nodev nfs > >>> nodev smbfs > >>> iso9660 > >>> nodev autofs > >>> nodev devpts > > There are some error messages in the syslog, which suggest all is not well; along the lines of: > >>>Nov 29 11:04:30 tbird2 kernel: reiserfs_read_super: can't find a > >>> reiserfs filesystem on dev 16:41. Nov 29 11:04:30 tbird2 kernel: > >>> reiserfs_read_super: try to find super block in old location Nov 29 > >>> 11:04:30 tbird2 kernel: reiserfs_read_super: can't find a reiserfs > >>> filesystem on dev 16:41. > > I've run out of ideas. Any suggestions welcome. > > Dougie
