Re: R4 won't mount.

Chris wakefield writes:
 > Hi Paolo.
 > Thanks for your reply.  I'm mounting a new reiser4 partition.  I just 
 > recreated another partition with cfdisk  (not rewriting R4 over the 

Let's get this straight:

1. partition (/dev/hda7) was created by cfdisk.
2. mkfs.reiser4 /dev/hda7 was executed
3. now mount fails

right?

 > previous one) and still won't mount.  I'm getting the usual error 
 > report:  "mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on 
 > /dev/hda7.....etc"

What is in your kernel logs? (Use dmesg command or look into file like
/var/log/messages.)

 > I also recompiled my 2.6.1 kernel & reiser4progs-0.4.20 as well.
 > I have noticed that the kernel compile is complaining though, now that I 
 > think about it I remember the original patching coming up with "hunk  
 > #1, etc, succeeding, etc and I had about 6 or 8 of those.  I ignored 
 > them as I assumed the word "succeeding" meant that things went ok.
 > So my next step will be to repatch a fresh kernel.

That shouldn't matter.

 > Chris W.
 >  

Nikita.

 >