On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 12:53, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: > 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 > > > > It sure was...but did you know why it was a good suggestion? :-P
Yes!! ;) LX P.S. The clue was that you had successfully used the partitions before you rebooted. So therefore I was betting it was something simple like that and that your data was intact. -- ����������������������������������������������� Linux Mandrake 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk *Catch Star Trek Enterprise, Wednesdays on UPN* ������������������������������������������������
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