[coLinux-devel] Problems mounting reiserfs

[Milind K. <mb...@ya...>]

I have updated to coLinux-0.6.0 and use
Debian-3.0r0 filesystem image to boot into Linux.
I am having trouble mounting a reiserfs partition when
colinux is booted up. The setup I have is follows:
I have a 15G extended partition seperate from the
Windows XP partition. It has 4 logical partitions
within it, which were created using Knoppix, and then
formatted using mkfs.reiserfs
The mapping has been setup correctly to use raw disk
in default.colinux.xml so that the partitions are
accessible as /dev/cobd[2345] etc.
Sample entry from default.colinux.xml:
<block_device index="2"
path=\Device\Harddisk0\Partition2" enabled="true"/>

Note: the partition is the first logical partition in
the extended partition -- so from XP point of view,
the partition is number 2

However when I try to mount I get the following error
message:

colinux-mbk:~# mount -t reiserfs /dev/cobd3 /mnt/tmp
reiserfs: found format "3.6" with standard journal
Filesystem on 75:03 cannot be mounted because it is
bigger than the device
You may need to run fsck or increase size of your LVM
partition
Or may be you forgot to reboot after fdisk when it
told you to
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on
/dev/cobd3,
       or too many mounted file systems
       (could this be the IDE device where you in fact
use 
        ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?)

Then I tried running mkfs.reiserfs from colinux as
follows:

colinux-mbk:~# mkfs.reiserfs /dev/cobd2
All data on /dev/cobd2 will be lost. Do you really
want to create reiser filesystem(v3.6) (y/n) y
Error: Invalid filesystem size (0).
Error: Couldn't create filesystem on /dev/cobd2

So it seems that the size of /dev/cobd2 is reported to
be 0, where as actual size is 2G.

Any clues what is going wrong?

When I reformatted the partition to ext3, they can be
mounted with no problems in colinux.

Thanks



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