On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 19:30, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 12:53, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: > > Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > > > > >On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 02:59, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > >>I've found the problem. > > >> > > >>diskdrake didn't change the fomatting of the drive when I converted (or > > >>thought I had) them from reiserfs to xfs. It only changed the entry in > > >>fstab. It was trying to mount reiserfs drives as xfs. When I thought I > > >>had formatted them I apparently didn't know that the "Format" button > > >>doesn't do anything. I haven't checked bugzilla for this yet, but I > > >>guess I will. > > >> > > >>That would explain why, as one poster suggested, manually creating the > > >>file system did the trick where doing it through diskdrake did not. > > >> > > >>I found out what was wrong by starting an install of Mandrake 9.2 Beta > > >>2. It was reporting the file system as reiserfs-- contradicting what > > >>diskdrake was saying (xfs). > > >> > > >>Anyway... now to manually create the xfs partitions... > > >> > > >>Thanks everyone-- for the suggestions. > > >> > > >> > > > > > >If you might remember it was one of my last suggestions to mount the > > >partitions as reiser. ;) > > > > > >LX > > > > > > > It sure was...but did you know why it was a good suggestion? :-P > > Yes!! > > > ;) > > LX > > P.S. The clue was that you had successfully used the partitions before > you rebooted. So therefore I was betting it was something simple like > that and that your data was intact.
I'm beginning to see something here. I think the problem is not that diskdrake isn't doing what it's intended to do, but rather the wording that it uses gives the impression it did something it shouldn't do. Or in understandable English. If it had converted your file systems to xfs.. you wouldn't have been able to use them since they where mounted reiserfs. Unless of course it unmounted and remounted them. I don't think you can umount / on a running system. Meaning that in order to convert it has to do it on an unmounted FS and since the binaries to do it are on the system to be converted... it's a catch 22. So maybe what is needed is a more accurate description via the interface of what it really does (edit fstab for you) rather than actually do the conversions. James
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