On May 11, 2004 19:51 -0700, Clifford Beshers wrote: > Thanks for the help everyone. In the end, it turned out that sfdisk is > indeed the culprit. We created a 2.1T partition with fdisk, then asked > sfdisk for the size and it said: -92,xxx,xxx. Unfortunately, this means > we have to either fix it or find an alternate solution to creating > partitions. If the word ``parted'' is on the tip of your tongue I'll > bet you haven't actually used the thing... > > There were a few bugs of ours that acted as red herrings, but Linspire > is now up and running on this system with ReiserFS 3 and kernel 2.6.5. > > While I'm here, I have some other questions: > > * What is the time complexity of mounting a ReiserFS partition? It > seems to be proportional to the size of the partition? Is it > different for Reiser4?
AFAIK, reiserfs will do the initial zeroing of the journal and filesystem bitmaps at the first mount time instead of at mkreiserfs time. I don't know why it was done that way. > * Is there a tool to determine the type of file system on a > partition without mounting it? Lots of them. "file -s /dev/foo" or if you have a newer e2fsprogs (1.33 and newer I think) you can use "blkid [dev ...]" to tell you a bunch of things about each device (LABEL, UUID, TYPE). Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
