Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Dec 27, 2007 7:23 AM, Emanuele Leonardi
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I just installed SL5 on a file server with pre-existing reiserfs partitio
ns
which I want to preserve.
According to the man page, reiserfs is supported by mount but when I give
the command I get the following error:
mount -t reiserfs /dev/sda1 /mnt
mount: unknown filesystem type 'reiserfs'
Also, if I issue the lsmod command, reiserfs is not listed.
What is the correct way to enable reiserfs support under SL5?
RH has never supported reiserfs (and it's no longer the default offered
by SUSE).
Thank you
Emanuele Leonardi
The upstream's kernel does not have reiserfs enabled. You will need to
enable it and recompile the kernel. In make menuconfig (or make
xconfig), go to File systems and check Reiserfs support (M). Or, edit
the .config file and change the "# CONFIG_REISERFS_FS is not set" line
to "CONFIG_REISERFS_FS=m"
Preferably, use one of the make config choices; I've taken to .config
with vim on occasion, and there's sometimes consequences.
You will also need (absolutely need) the reiserfs toolset. It seems to
me from reports I've seen that reiserfs is a little fragile, and you
really need the ability to fsck it.
Probably, CentOS has all of what you need in one of its repos, and they
are compatible with RHEL and so SL.
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Cheers
John
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