On 01/13/2002 05:05 PM, Ole Tange wrote: > mkreiserfs seems not to work on plain files, which is pretty bad if you > want to make a loopback-file with reiserfs. > > # dd if=/dev/zero of=loopfile count=100k > # mkreiserfs -f loopfile > mkreiserfs, 2001 - reiserfsprogs 3.x.0jmkreiserfs: loopfile is not a block > special device. > Forced to continue, but please confirm (y/n)y > # mkdir mountpoint > # mount loopfile mountpoint -oloop -t reiserfs > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0, > or too many mounted file systems > > > /Ole > > >
Hi Ole, I didn't have problems with these commands and reiserfs-progs 3.x.1 . Here I had to add another "-f": # mkreiserfs -f -f /mnt/beta/loopfile <-------------mkreiserfs, 2001-------------> reiserfsprogs 3.x.1 mkreiserfs: /mnt/beta/loopfile is not a block special device Continue (y/n):y [...] Manuel
