OK, what sort of voodoo must I do to get DiskDrake to make two new ReiserFS 
partitions?  I have tried three times now, each time I set the partition 
sizes and select ReiserFS as the type, DiskDrake tells me to reset the 
computer-- being an ex-Windows user, I don't blink twice at this...!

The first time around I didn't check anything.

The second time around I removed the updates to /etc/fstab figuring they won't 
be mount-able until I format them the way I want them to be.

The third time around I sawa that /etc/fstab was updated just the way I 
expected it to be with two new ReiserFS partitions.

All three times when I reboot and go back to DiskDrake to format these 
partitions, one has its type changed to ext3 and the other is set to ext2!  I 
don't even bother formatting these because that is not what I want.

A cat syslog|grep 'hda' shows what happened the last time I rebooted (hda6 and 
hda7 are the new partitions...):

Jul  2 22:07:25 rocjoe1 kernel:     ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd000-0xd007, BIOS 
settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
Jul  2 22:07:25 rocjoe1 kernel: hda: MAXTOR 6L040J2, ATA DISK drive
Jul  2 22:07:25 rocjoe1 kernel: hda: 78177792 sectors (40027 MB) w/1819KiB 
Cache, CHS=4866/255/63, UDMA(100)
Jul  2 22:07:26 rocjoe1 mount: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad 
superblock on /dev/hda7,
Jul  2 22:07:26 rocjoe1 mount: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad 
superblock on /dev/hda6,
Jul  2 22:07:13 rocjoe1 mount: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad 
superblock on /dev/hda7,
Jul  2 22:07:13 rocjoe1 mount: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad 
superblock on /dev/hda6,
Jul  2 22:09:20 rocjoe1 diskdrake[1964]: found a dos partition table on 
/dev/hda at sector 0
Jul  2 22:09:20 rocjoe1 diskdrake[1964]: err, fstab and partition table do not 
agree for hda6 type: ext3 vs reiserfs
Jul  2 22:09:20 rocjoe1 diskdrake[1964]: err, fstab and partition table do not 
agree for hda7 type: ext2 vs reiserfs
Jul  2 22:09:20 rocjoe1 diskdrake[1964]: found mounted partition on hda1 with 
/

...I already have three other ReiserFS partitions over two hard drives that 
are co-operating nicely.

Any ideas?

Richie


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