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. ;) LX -- ����������������������������������������������� Linux Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk *Catch Star Trek Enterprise, Wednesdays on UPN* ������������������������������������������������
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