Re: some troubles with mounting reiserfs

[Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>]

Hello!

On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 12:25:18PM +0200, Serge Rodrigues wrote:
>             I have some troubles when I want to mount a reiserfs
> partition I use the command :
>             Mount -t reiserfs /dev/hdb1 /mnt/xxx
>             The result is
>             Mount : wrong fs type, bad options, bad superblock on
> /dev/hdb1 or too many mounted file systems

Well, what kernel version do you use?
What are the messages in kernel log? (e.g. run dmesg to see)

>             I've tried 
> fsck.reiserfs -check
>             The result :
>                         The problem has occurred looks like a hardware
> problem
>                         Check your hard drive badblocks
>                         Bread : Cannot read the block (17760256)

Hm, sounds like your partition is bigger than underlying block device and you recently have upgraded your kernel
to 2.4.21rc1 or something like that, no?

>             When I use : 
> debug.reiserfs /dev/hdb1
> The Result :
> <-------------debugreiserfs, 2002------------->
> reiserfsprogs 3.6.4
> Reiserfs super block in block 16 on 0x341 of format 3.6 with standard
> journal
> Count of blocks on the device: 20010808

Hm, but then debugfs should have complained too?

> How to solve this problem ??

We need to see what are the kernel messages.
also output of "fdisk -l /dev/hdb"

Bye,
    Oleg