From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Edward Shishkin Subject: Re: Nightly Builds Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:00:33 +0400 Message-ID: <487A34B1.5010309@gmail.com> References: <66CE03FC-0D5A-4837-A2F5-1D00833EE70E@jasonandannette.us> <485FAF96.40608@suse.com> <27533.202.168.22.19.1214318654.squirrel@webmail.velocity.net.au> <48610B80.3020908@suse.com> <15208.202.168.22.19.1214398774.squirrel@webmail.velocity.net.au> <48626E1B.6070604@suse.com> <23129.202.168.22.19.1214638448.squirrel@webmail.velocity.net.au> <4866575D.1000305@suse.com> <14971.202.168.22.19.1214748124.squirrel@webmail.velocity.net.au> <4867DC31.2030702@suse.com> <23784.202.168.22.19.1214826598.squirrel@webmail.velocity.net.au> <4868F3C8.2090006@suse.com> <20253.202.168.22.19.1215615647.squirrel@webmail.velocity.net.au> <4874D51A.7020909@suse.com> <24383.202.168.22.19.1215703298.squirrel@webmail.velocity.net.au> <4876301A.6020208@suse.com> <27342.202.168.22.19.1215840119.squirrel@webmail .velocity.net.au> <84BA00E0-5BA8-41A3-9C7C-54723058D7F6@suse.com> <23441.202.168.22.19.1215958910.squirrel@webmail.velocity.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <23441.202.168.22.19.1215958910.squirrel@webmail.velocity.net.au> Sender: reiserfs-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: doiggl@velocitynet.com.au Cc: Jeff Mahoney , "reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org" 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 >> > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe reiserfs-devel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > >