On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 03:38, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > 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
well the good news is ..... data isn't lost. James
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