Collins Richey wrote:
>
> Doing some restructuring of partitions to prepare for installing
> Slackware, I happened to convert a now unused swap partition to a linux
> partition. The sequence of events was
>
> fdisk /dev/hdd
> changed partition type to 83 (linux)
> wrote changes
> rebooted
> mkreiserfs /dev/hdd5 (the former swap partion)
> mounted the new partition
> copied all files from my /boot partition to the new one
> verified that everything is there
> modified my lilo.conf to use the new /boot partition
> booted again.
>
> Now whenever I use the command
>
> mount /dev/hdd5 -o notail /mnt/hdd5 (works for all others)
>
> I get error "looks like a swap partition ... mount not done."
>
> so now I have to
>
> mount /dev/hdd5 -o notail -t reiserfs /mnt/hdd5
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions?
What does /etc/fstab say about this partition?
Ciao,
David A. Bandel
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