mkreiserfs produces 'not formatted' error
I've set up a few reiser filesystems now and not had any problems. However, I
have one drive that is producing the following error message:
mkreiserfs: Disk was not formatted
The disk was previously a windows 98 disk. 25MB. IBM. I've run cfdisk and
reinitialized the disk and this hasn't cured it. I even booted into windows
98 and ran partition magic, formated /dev/hdb1 as ext2 (which took AGES) and
rebooted back to linux. Have I hit unlucky with this drive? Here's a
transcript of a typical attempt:
Script started on Tue Jan 15 20:57:08 2002
root@guestw: /rootroot@guestw:~#
root@guestw: /rootroot@guestw:~# fdisk -l /dev/hdb
Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3111 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 1 3111 24989076 83 Linux
root@guestw: /rootroot@guestw:~# dmesg | grep hdb
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
hdb: IBM-DJNA-352500, ATA DISK drive
hdb: 49981680 sectors (25591 MB) w/1966KiB Cache, CHS=3111/255/63, UDMA(33)
hdb: hdb1
root@guestw: /rootroot@guestw:~#
root@guestw: /rootroot@guestw:~# df -hT
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda7 ext2 10G 2.4G 7.4G 24% /
/dev/hda6 ext2 5.5G 784M 4.4G 15% /potato
/dev/hda1 vfat 7.4G 838M 6.6G 11% /98/c
/dev/hdc1 reiserfs 29G 25G 3.8G 87% /mp3
/dev/hdd1 reiserfs 56G 33M 55G 1% /backups
guestw:~# mkreiserfs -v 2 /dev/hdb1
<-------------mkreiserfs, 2001------------->
reiserfsprogs 3.x.0j
===================================================================
LEAF NODE (8211) contains level=1, nr_items=2, free_space=3932 rdkey
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|###|type|ilen|f/sp| loc|fmt|fsck| key
|
| | | |e/cn| | |need|
|
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| 0|1 2 0x0 SD, len 44, entry count 0, fsck need 0, format new|
(NEW SD), mode drwxr-xr-x, size 48, nlink 2, mtime 01/15/2002 20:58:35 blocks
8
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| 1|1 2 0x1 DIR, len 48, entry count 2, fsck need 0, format old|
###: Name length Object key Hash Gen
number
0: ". "( 1) 1 2 0 1,
loc 40, state 4 ??
1: ".. "( 2) 0 1 0 2,
loc 32, state 4 ??
===================================================================
Creating reiserfs of 3.6 format
Block size 4096 bytes
Block count 6247269
Used blocks 8402
Free blocks count 6238867
First 16 blocks skipped
Super block is in 16
Bitmap blocks (191) are :
17, 32768, 65536, 98304, 131072, 163840, 196608, 229376, 262144, 294912,
327680, 360448, 393216, 425984, 458752, 491520, 524288, 557056, 589824,
622592, 655360, 688128, 720896, 753664, 786432, 819200, 851968, 884736,
917504, 950272, 983040, 1015808, 1048576, 1081344, 1114112, 1146880, 1179648,
1212416, 1245184, 1277952, 1310720, 1343488, 1376256, 1409024, 1441792,
1474560, 1507328, 1540096, 1572864, 1605632, 1638400, 1671168, 1703936,
1736704, 1769472, 1802240, 1835008, 1867776, 1900544, 1933312, 1966080,
1998848, 2031616, 2064384, 2097152, 2129920, 2162688, 2195456, 2228224,
2260992, 2293760, 2326528, 2359296, 2392064, 2424832, 2457600, 2490368,
2523136, 2555904, 2588672, 2621440, 2654208, 2686976, 2719744, 2752512,
2785280, 2818048, 2850816, 2883584, 2916352, 2949120, 2981888, 3014656,
3047424, 3080192, 3112960, 3145728, 3178496, 3211264, 3244032, 3276800,
3309568, 3342336, 3375104, 3407872, 3440640, 3473408, 3506176, 3538944,
3571712, 3604480, 3637248, 3670016, 3702784, 3735552, 3768320, 3801088,
3833856, 3866624, 3899392, 3932160, 3964928, 3997696, 4030464, 4063232,
4096000, 4128768, 4161536, 4194304, 4227072, 4259840, 4292608, 4325376,
4358144, 4390912, 4423680, 4456448, 4489216, 4521984, 4554752, 4587520,
4620288, 4653056, 4685824, 4718592, 4751360, 4784128, 4816896, 4849664,
4882432, 4915200, 4947968, 4980736, 5013504, 5046272, 5079040, 5111808,
5144576, 5177344, 5210112, 5242880, 5275648, 5308416, 5341184, 5373952,
5406720, 5439488, 5472256, 5505024, 5537792, 5570560, 5603328, 5636096,
5668864, 5701632, 5734400, 5767168, 5799936, 5832704, 5865472, 5898240,
5931008, 5963776, 5996544, 6029312, 6062080, 6094848, 6127616, 6160384,
6193152, 6225920
Journal size 8192 (blocks 18-8210 of file /dev/hdb1)
Root block 8211
Hash function "r5"
ATTENTION: YOU SHOULD REBOOT AFTER FDISK!
(y/n) ALL DATA WILL BE LOST ON '/dev/hdb1'! yes
mkreiserfs: Disk was not formatted
Script done on Tue Jan 15 20:58:41 2002
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