ah! I thought of that and made a partition but forgot to reboot after making it so that was the reason it wasn't working
thanks, leo On January 26, 2003 08:33 pm, nate wrote: > Leo Spalteholz said: > > Hi, > > I was just trying to make a reiserfs partition on my new drive > > but I kept getting the following error > > pherthyl:/home/leo# mkreiserfs /dev/hdb2 20000 > > that makes a reiserfs filesystem, not a partition > > use cfdisk to make the partitions, thats an easy to use tool in my > experience. > > the partition type should be Linux(default). cfdisk does not have > the ability to resize existing partitions. > > nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
