On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 02:19:43PM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > #include <hallo.h> > Michael Stone wrote on Fri Apr 12, 2002 um 07:14:13AM: > > On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 01:08:02AM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > > See subject. mke2fs and mkreiserfs do not touch the first 100 bytes of > > > the partition, but exactly this area (first 4 chars) is used to detect > > > the XFS filesystem. > > > > Yes. Unfortunately XFS is the only (AFAIK) linux filesystem that doesn't > > support a boot sector at the front of the partition. (For compatability > > with IRIX, which has a sensible boot loader.) > > Do we have a FAQ for typical installation problems? Probably we should > add a part like: > > Q: I formated my old XFS partition as Reiserfs (or Ext2/3), but the > installer refuses to mount it, why? > A: Go to the second console and remove rests of XFS manually: > > Alt-F2 > Enter > echo " " > /dev/my_partition Rather than burden the user, could we fix the file system detection code to distinguish XFS partitions accurately? Matt
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