Hi Alan -
There are a few caveats on using Irix disks, I think there is a list in the
faq, for starters.
If "mount" says that xfs is not supported, can you check to see whether
you got any system messages?
If you compiled in xfs, check that xfs is in /proc/filesystems
If xfs is a module, check that the module is loading correctly, and it
should also show up in /proc/filesystems.
That might be the place to start..
-Eric
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, GIFFORD, ALAN (JSC-SF1) (JEC) wrote:
> I have an externel SCSI hard drive that I'd like to mount under Linux. I'm
> using kernel 2.4.19, and I have
>
> File systems --> Partition types --> SGI partition support
>
> compiled into the kernel, yet when I try to mount like this:
>
> mount -t xfs /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb/
>
> mount returns that xfs is not supported by the kernel. Unless the kernel
> make screwed up, this has got to be wrong, because all the other stuff I
> compiled into the kernel works. It's not even an option to compile it as a
> module, so that can't be the problem.
>
> I did an fdisk /dev/sdb and looked at the partition table. It has three
> partitions listed, everything looks fine, it has an SGI xfs, SGI volhdr and
> SGI volume partitions listed. This drive worked on the O2 I just took it
> off of, so I don't see what the problem is.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help you can afford.
>
> Alan
>
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