GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 688523
Can't format 'reiser4'
Last modified: 2012-11-17 17:09:03 UTC
Under Ubuntu 12.04.1 with Gparted 0.11.0-2, reiser4progs 1.0.7-6.3fakesync1 and reiserfsprogs 1:3.6.21-1build1, I cant format a partition with 'reiser4' format. Here repport (gparted_details) : ======================================== GParted 0.11.0 --enable-libparted-dmraid Libparted 2.3 Formater /dev/sdc6 en reiser4 00:00:03 ( ERREUR ) calibrer /dev/sdc6 00:00:01 ( SUCCÈS ) chemin : /dev/sdc6 début : 21 372 928 fin : 28 872 703 taille : 7 499 776 (3.58 Gio) définir le type de partition sur /dev/sdc6 00:00:02 ( SUCCÈS ) nouveau type de partition : ext2 créer un nouveau système de fichiers reiser4 00:00:00 ( ERREUR ) mkfs.reiser4 --yes --label "" /dev/sdc6 Warn : Linux 3.2.0-33-generic is detected. Reiser4 does not support such a platform. Use -f to force over. ========================================
Ask you can see in the last line, "Linux 3.2.0-33-generic is detected. Reiser4 does not support such a platform." so I wonder why you filed this bug report?
Hi maisondouf, As André has pointed out the Ubuntu kernel doesn't support reiser4 file systems. This is the root cause of why the file system couldn't be created. You could compile the kernel yourself adding the required patches for reiser4. However if you don't know how to do this yourself then may I humbly suggest you shouldn't be using reiser4 file system. You can create the file system by adding the "-f" force flag to the mkfs.reiser4 command line like this, but you will still need to compile a kernel yourself to be able to use the file system. mkfs.reiser4 --yes --label "" -f /dev/sdc6 I don't believe that GParted should add this flag when it tries to create reiser4 file systems. The mkfs.reiser4 manual page suggests the force flag disables a few safety checks, not to mention the one you encountered. Thanks, Mike
Hi, I've seen that after I post... I had tried to launch mkfs.reiser4 with -f option and after a while I got the terminal prompt without any error message. But the partition were always recognized as ext3 (the previous format). I don't need anymore this format, I use it only to test GPT partition tables. see : http://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/viewtopic.php?pid=11544721#p11544721 Thanks for all and lot of apologizes.