Re: Fwd: mount: error message

2004-10-01 Thread Robert Fisher
On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 18:36, Steve Holdoway wrote: > > Try using the word 'defaults' as your option list. That's all you need. > If mount /mnt/share works as a command line on its own, then you're sorted. > > Steve /dev/sda4/mnt/share ext3 defaults,umask=000 0 0 Does not work either

Re: Fwd: mount: error message

2004-10-01 Thread Steve Holdoway
Robert Fisher wrote: Thanks Steve and Matthew, but I had tried that before (taking notail out) my fstab now is as below but the problem is still here:- /dev/sda1 /bootext3noauto,noatime 1 1 /dev/sda3 / reiserfsnotail,noatime 0 1 /dev/sda2 none

Re: Fwd: mount: error message

2004-10-01 Thread Robert Fisher
Thanks Steve and Matthew, but I had tried that before (taking notail out) my fstab now is as below but the problem is still here:- /dev/sda1 /bootext3noauto,noatime 1 1 /dev/sda3 / reiserfsnotail,noatime 0 1 /dev/sda2 none wapsw

Re: Fwd: mount: error message

2004-10-01 Thread Steve Holdoway
[snip] man mke2fs might help. notail is a reiser option, Didn't take long to find the reason once the requested info arrived (: ... well it might, but man mount, using the ext2/ext3 sections might help more. Brain in neutral again. Steve Steve

Re: Fwd: mount: error message

2004-10-01 Thread Steve Holdoway
Robert Fisher wrote: On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 17:31, Steve Holdoway wrote: No, don't change any of there. However, I think *everybody* would be happier if you posted the output from either mount or df. Cheers, Steve As you can see below, mount and df show that sda4 is not mounted until I type mo

Re: Fwd: mount: error message

2004-10-01 Thread Matthew Gregan
At 2004-10-02T17:52:33+1200, Robert Fisher wrote: > As you can see below, mount and df show that sda4 is not mounted until > I type mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/share/ > ...so WHY can't I have a line like mine in fstab? > /dev/sda4/mnt/share ext3 notail,noatime,umask=000 0 0 Because the notail optio

Re: Fwd: mount: error message

2004-10-01 Thread Robert Fisher
On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 17:31, Steve Holdoway wrote: > No, don't change any of there. However, I think *everybody* would be > happier if you posted the output from either mount or df. > > Cheers, > > Steve As you can see below, mount and df show that sda4 is not mounted until I type mount /dev/sda4 /

Re: Fwd: mount: error message

2004-10-01 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 17:21, Robert Fisher wrote: No, I think those settings are fine, but I find the built-in config file so very useful so I'd set this one too:- CONFIG_IKCONFIG=y thats make menuconfig General setup ---> Kernel .config support * One can then be absolutely certain that what is

Re: Fwd: mount: error message

2004-10-01 Thread Robert Fisher
OK here it is. Do you think any of these need changing? beast linux # cat /usr/src/linux/.config | egrep -i 'reiser|ext3' CONFIG_EXT3_FS=y CONFIG_EXT3_FS_XATTR=y # CONFIG_EXT3_FS_POSIX_ACL is not set # CONFIG_EXT3_FS_SECURITY is not set CONFIG_REISERFS_FS=y # CONFIG_REISERFS_CHECK is not set # CON

Re: Fwd: mount: error message

2004-10-01 Thread Steve Holdoway
Robert Fisher wrote: On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 13:10, Christopher Sawtell wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ zcat /proc/config.gz | egrep -i 'reiser|ext3' # CONFIG_EXT3_FS is not set CONFIG_REISERFS_FS=y # CONFIG_REISERFS_CHECK is not set CONFIG_REISERFS_PROC_INFO=y # CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_XATTR is not set Sin

Re: mount: error message

2004-10-01 Thread Robert Fisher
On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 13:14, Nick Rout wrote: > other ways to diagnose this would be: > > umount /dev/sda4 and see if the files are stll there on the mount point; > or > try mounting /dev/sda4 elsewhere in the filesystem and see whats there. Yes I can confirm now that the files are in /mnt/share bu

Re: Fwd: mount: error message

2004-10-01 Thread Robert Fisher
On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 13:10, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ zcat /proc/config.gz | egrep -i 'reiser|ext3' > # CONFIG_EXT3_FS is not set > CONFIG_REISERFS_FS=y > # CONFIG_REISERFS_CHECK is not set > CONFIG_REISERFS_PROC_INFO=y > # CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_XATTR is not set > > Sincerely

Re: ipcop 1.4.0 released

2004-10-01 Thread Brendan Greer
Hi guys I have IPCOP 1.4 installed and booted up. It took me about 15 minutes to setup as nick indicated . Nice new interface and features. I downloaded it last night over bittorrent. Took about 5 hours. Best of all it goes ok on my 1000mhz machine with 48megs of ram and 33k modem Brendan Greer

Re: Fwd: mount: error message

2004-10-01 Thread Gareth Williams
On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 12:59:01 +1200, Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Be sure to check that you have either got the kernel module for the filesystem > loaded, or the driver compiled into the kernel? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ zcat /proc/config.gz | egrep -i 'reiser|ext3' > # CONFIG_E

Re: mount: error message

2004-10-01 Thread Nick Rout
On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 11:31:36 +1200 Gareth Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Um, can I ask how you know it's working? Could you please do the > following commands directly after boot and post the output: > > # df > # mount /dev/sda4 /home/share > # df > > I have my suspicions that it isn't m

Re: Fwd: mount: error message

2004-10-01 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 11:31, Gareth Williams wrote: > On Sat, 2 Oct 2004 10:38:30 +1200, Robert Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 10:20, Gareth Williams wrote: > > > I am not suggesting that it is a faulty disk. I am interested to know > > > if you can actually mount /dev/sda

Re: Set serial problem in 2.6.7 (Mepis Debian)

2004-10-01 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 10:26, Andrew Errington wrote: > On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 16:31, you wrote: > > Thanks Chris - I am not sure about the number of serial devices - > > probably not in reality, it is just that I have always used ttyS4 for > > this particular modem (suggested in the setup notes and the

Re: Fwd: mount: error message

2004-10-01 Thread Gareth Williams
On Sat, 2 Oct 2004 10:38:30 +1200, Robert Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 10:20, Gareth Williams wrote: > > > I am not suggesting that it is a faulty disk. I am interested to know > > if you can actually mount /dev/sda4, that is all. The errors above > > look like fatal err

Re: ipcop 1.4.0 released

2004-10-01 Thread Gareth Williams
Wahoo. Thank you Nick :-) I'm grabbing the torrent right now...

Re: Re: Set serial problem in 2.6.7 (Mepis Debian)

2004-10-01 Thread Andrew Errington
On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 16:31, you wrote: > Thanks Chris - I am not sure about the number of serial devices - > probably not in reality, it is just that I have always used ttyS4 for > this particular modem (suggested in the setup notes and the only one that > seems to work). My laptop has one serial p

ipcop 1.4.0 released

2004-10-01 Thread Nick Rout
subject says it all, but I'll include the full announcement which has the download sites. A word of advice, the sourceforge mirrors take a long time to sync,I am downloading using the bittorrent (see below) [forwarded from a message from Alan Hourihane on ipcop-devel] IPCop users, and developers

Re: Fwd: mount: error message

2004-10-01 Thread Gareth Williams
Robert Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Everything seems to work even though I get the error message . . . > beast root # mount -t ext3 -o sb=16 /dev/sda4 /mnt/share/ > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda4, >or too many mounted file systems > beast root # moun

Re: Fwd: mount: error message

2004-10-01 Thread Robert Fisher
On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 08:28, Steve Holdoway wrote: > Ok, it's ext3. So, if you try mount -t ext3 -o sb=16 /dev/dsa4 /mnt does > it mount cleanly? If not try with 32 in place of 16. If it does, then > your superblock is corrupt, and the best thing to do is to tar > everything off it, reformat it using

Re: Fwd: mount: error message

2004-10-01 Thread Steve Holdoway
Robert Fisher wrote: A better explanation and answers to your questions can be found at http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=230932&highlight= On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 20:53, Steve Holdoway wrote: Robert, Do you mean /dev/sda..., rather that /devsda... I take it that you're mounting either a scsi

Re: Fwd: mount: error message

2004-10-01 Thread Robert Fisher
A better explanation and answers to your questions can be found at http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=230932&highlight= On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 20:53, Steve Holdoway wrote: > Robert, > > Do you mean /dev/sda..., rather that /devsda... > > I take it that you're mounting either a scsi ior usb driv

Re: booting problems

2004-10-01 Thread Steve Holdoway
Zane Gilmore wrote: Just recently I tried to reboot my machine at home: a Mandrake 10.0 box running a 2.4 kernel (so my Ihug Ultra thingie will work.) First of all I got problems with the hard disk partitions not being recognised. So I then changed my fstab to point at /dev/ide/target0 instea

Re: mount: error message

2004-10-01 Thread Gareth Williams
Robert Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /devsda4 or too many > mounted filesystems" The first place you want to look is /etc/fstab. You might have a broken entry in there.. ? Also, I noticed in the quote above, it's called "/devsda4" - I

Re: Fwd: mount: error message

2004-10-01 Thread Steve Holdoway
Robert Fisher wrote: Dam. I meant to send this to work to google later. Oh well, you have it now. /devsda1 = ext3 = /boot /devsda2 = swap /devsda3 = reiserfs = / /devsda4 = ext3 = /mnt/share I have tried both reiser and ext3 on /devsda4 Everything seems to work even though I get the error message.

Re: Gentoo meet / AGM?

2004-10-01 Thread Matthew Gregan
At 2004-10-01T19:25:17+1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > Quoting the Gentoo install manual:- > "ReiserFS is a B*-tree based filesystem that has very good overall > performance and greatly outperforms both ext2 and ext3 when dealing > with small files (files less than 4k), often by a factor of 10x

Re: Gentoo meet / AGM?

2004-10-01 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 18:26, Matthew Gregan wrote: > At 2004-10-01T17:43:08+1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 17:16, Rik Tindall wrote: > > > Ext3 of course!! :-) > > > > Not necessarily so. Only if you want to sacrifice speed ( lots ) on > > the virtual altar of reliability.