On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 02:59, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote:

> 
> 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.

If you might remember it was one of my last suggestions to mount the
partitions as reiser. ;)

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