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Offline wdchromium

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reiserfs partitions not mounting
« on: January 10, 2011, 01:49:48 AM »
I'm having trouble mounting a Reiserfs filesystem made through the extension reiserfsprogs.tcz (3.6.21 on microcore 3.4.1).

Here are the steps I followed:

  • created virtual disk, partitioned using sudo fdisk /dev/sda
  • rebooted
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tc@box:~$ mkreiserfs /dev/sda1
mkreiserfs 3.6.21 (2009 www.namesys.com)

A pair of credits:
[credits ommitted]

Guessing about desired format.. Kernel 2.6.33.3-tinycore is running.
Format 3.6 with standard journal
Count of blocks on the device: 365456
Number of blocks consumed by mkreiserfs formatting process: 8223
Blocksize: 4096
Hash function used to sort names: "r5"
Journal Size 8193 blocks (first block 18)
Journal Max transaction length 1024
inode generation number: 0
UUID: b4e6e497-73f7-4038-9ee9-d8244ba4f52c
ATTENTION: YOU SHOULD REBOOT AFTER FDISK!
        ALL DATA WILL BE LOST ON '/dev/sda1'!
Continue (y/n):y
Initializing journal - 0%....20%....40%....60%....80%....100%
Syncing..ok
ReiserFS is successfully created on /dev/sda1.
tc@box:~$ sudo rebuildfstab
tc@box:~$ mount /dev/sda1
mount: mounting /dev/sda1 on /mnt/sda1 failed: No such device
tc@box:~$

Likewise, using the very exact steps with ext4 immediately after,  I get this:
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tc@box:~$ mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1
mke2fs 1.41.11 (14-Mar-2010)
Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=4096 (log=2)
Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
Stride=0 blocks, Stripe width=0 blocks
91392 inodes, 365470 blocks
18273 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=0
Maximum filesystem blocks=377487360
12 block groups
32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
7616 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
        32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912

Writing inode tables: done
Creating journal (8192 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done

This filesystem will be automatically checked every 23 mounts or
180 days, whichever comes first.  Use tune2fs -c or -i to override.
tc@box:~$ sudo rebuildfstab
tc@box:~$ mount /dev/sda1
tc@box:~$ ls /mnt/sda1
lost+found/
tc@box:~$

I've tried every combination of steps in doing this, such as restarting after rebuildfstab to see if it can mount on reboot, but no dice. Is there something simple I'm missing to mount ReiserFS?

edit: as a sidenote, nothing special about the partitioning. sata 2000MB, 1500MB sda1, 500sda2
edit2: exact same non-mounting issue with xfs from mkfs.xfs -f /dev/sda1, also tried all mount operations with sudo, same response
« Last Edit: January 10, 2011, 02:04:41 AM by wdchromium »

Offline tinypoodle

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Re: reiserfs partitions not mounting
« Reply #1 on: January 10, 2011, 02:12:44 AM »
Is there something simple I'm missing to mount ReiserFS?

filesystems*.tcz ?
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Offline wdchromium

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Re: reiserfs partitions not mounting
« Reply #2 on: January 10, 2011, 02:21:16 AM »
Ah, alas..the most incredibly simple answer ever, thank you.

I had just thought that reiserfsprogs was a complete package, but with filesystems*.tcz everything worked perfectly (and I didnt see anything like this on my forum-search). But at any rate--

Thanks so much again !