On Wednesday 22 December 2004 22:01, david rankin wrote:
Mates,
I needed to wipe /dev/hdb and start over. What I did was to:
umount /data fdisk /dev/hdb (delete old partitions and added new partition to use whole disk) mkfs.reiserfs
then rebooted First, you do not need to reboot. While this is generally the correct way to proceed, you could use QTParted or YaSt to do this with out rebooting. First, unmount the existing /dev/hdb* file systems. Second, run the YaST partitioner, delete all partitions on /dev/hdb Then set up the file system, click on the format flag. Set the mount point. YaST will update your /etc/fstab. Then click on apply. YaST will complete the operation for you,
Once you complete this, do a df on /data and see if things show up
correctly. Please note that QTParted will delete the partitions and
reformat the new one to ReiserFS, but will not edit the /etc/fstab file for
you. There could possibly be a bug in fdisk.
--
Jerry Feldman