Re: Nightly Builds

[Edward Shishkin <edward.shishkin@gmail.com>]

doiggl@velocitynet.com.au wrote:
> Hello,
> - I rebooted and now 'modprobe -v  reiser4' now shows activity:
> # modprobe -v  reiser4
> insmod
> /lib/modules/2.6.25.9-0.2-default/kernel/lib/zlib_deflate/zlib_deflate.ko
> insmod /lib/modules/2.6.25.9-0.2-default/kernel/lib/lzo/lzo_compress.ko
> insmod /lib/modules/2.6.25.9-0.2-default/kernel/lib/lzo/lzo_decompress.ko
> insmod /lib/modules/2.6.25.9-0.2-default/weak-updates/reiser4.ko
>
> -- Next my blank disk shows up as /dev/sda  .This is unformatted.
> So I tried formatting it,and got the following error:
>
> # mkfs.reiser4 -o create=ccreg40 /dev/sda
> mkfs.reiser4 1.0.6
> Copyright (C) 2001-2005 by Hans Reiser, licensing governed by
> reiser4progs/COPYING.
>
> Overriding the plugin profile by "create=ccreg40".
> Block size 4096 will be used.
> Linux 2.6.25.9-0.2-default is detected.
> Error: Device /dev/sda is an entire harddrive, not just one partition.
>
> -- So next I created an extended partition (entire disk) it with YAST,that
> worked, named /dev/sda1
> -- Next I tried to create a reiser4 filesystem on /dev/sda1 , and failed.
>   

You might want some tutorial about hard disk basic concepts.
Format logical partitions, not extended ones.

Thanks,
Edward.

>
> # mkfs.reiser4 -o create=ccreg40 /dev/sda1
> mkfs.reiser4 1.0.6
> Copyright (C) 2001-2005 by Hans Reiser, licensing governed by
> reiser4progs/COPYING.
>
> Overriding the plugin profile by "create=ccreg40".
> Block size 4096 will be used.
> Linux 2.6.25.9-0.2-default is detected.
> Uuid ceb5d729-091b-4524-84b0-2d014f297842 will be used.
> Reiser4 is going to be created on /dev/sda1.
> (Yes/No): y
> Error: Requested filesystem size (0) is too small. Reiser4 required
> minimal size 25 blocks long.
> Error: Can't create filesystem on /dev/sda1.
>
> # mkfs.reiser4 -V
> mkfs.reiser4 1.0.6
>
> The commands I used both failed.
> Question: How do I format (say 10GB) size part of the disk with
> mkfs.reiser4 with compression as well and what am I missing from the
> command ?
>
> Thankyou
> Glenn
>
>   
>> Jeff Wrote
>> Ok... But does the mount fail?
>>
>> --
>> Jeff Mahoney (mobile)
>> SuSE Labs
>>     
>
>
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