Because it uses the same filesystem keys (from fdisk) that ext2 does - so it tries to mount an ext2 filesystem. They will eventually change this I think. Tom Veldhouse veldy at veldy.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Hicks" <hick0088 at tc.umn.edu> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 12:16 AM Subject: Re: [TCLUG] ReiserFS > dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu wrote: > > > [snip] > > but I can't mount the drive > > > > # mount /dev/sda6 /mnt/reiser > > mount: /dev/sda6 has wrong major or minor number > > I've seen this before: Linux can't autodetect ReiserFS for some > reason. Try `mount -t reiserfs /dev/sda6 /mnt/reiser' > > -- > _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ Error: Such action is > / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ punishable by death. > \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) > [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >