On Saturday 31 January 2004 09:08, alikhani wrote:
> mkfs -t reiserfs /dev/dasdn
> it syas "mkfs.reiserfs: No such file or directory"
It's usually called 'mkreiserfs'. You might need to install
the 'reiserfsprogs' package before you can use it.
> He says that this dasd has been formated before and he only assign it to
> linux but I don't know how to assign it to /var . I want to seperate
> /var from / filesystem because now it is on / .
> I used mke2fs /dev/dasdn but system says:
> "mke2fs: No such device while trying to determine filesystem size"
> when I use :"cat /proc/dasd/devices" the result is:
> 053d(none) at ( 94: 44) is dasdl:unknown
> 053f(none) at ( 94: 48) is dasdm:unknown
> 0800(none) at ( 94: 52) is dasdn:unknown
you need to run 'dasdfmt' on the new disk before you can create a
file system on it. See the dasdfmt man page or the device driver
manual for how to use it.
Arnd <><
