Hello all,
Can anyone help me diagnose why my previously working (reiserfs), now formatted with XFS, hard drives will no longer mount?
I did the transition from reiserfs to XFS in diskdrake. It asked, and I allowed it, to write to my fstab file. As far as I can tell it wrote it correctly, but after a shutdown and unplug (to avoid damage in a lightning storm) the drives will no longer mount at boot, nor can I mount them manually. I used them for a few hours, copying 28GBs of data back and forth without any problems before I had to shutdown.
The Pertinent lines in my fstab are:
/dev/hdg1 /drive2 xfs defaults 1 2 /dev/hdh1 /drive3 xfs defaults 1 2
Here are the lines from my previously working configuration (before they were converted to XFS):
/dev/hdg1 /drive2 reiserfs notail 1 2 /dev/hdh1 /drive3 reiserfs notail 1 2
Any suggestions?
I've found the problem.
diskdrake didn't change the fomatting of the drive when I converted (or thought I had) them from reiserfs to xfs. It only changed the entry in fstab. It was trying to mount reiserfs drives as xfs. When I thought I had formatted them I apparently didn't know that the "Format" button doesn't do anything. I haven't checked bugzilla for this yet, but I guess I will.
That would explain why, as one poster suggested, manually creating the file system did the trick where doing it through diskdrake did not.
I found out what was wrong by starting an install of Mandrake 9.2 Beta 2. It was reporting the file system as reiserfs-- contradicting what diskdrake was saying (xfs).
Anyway... now to manually create the xfs partitions...
Thanks everyone-- for the suggestions.
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