Hello, This is an example setup using an entire disk volume. # modprobe -v reiser4 insmod /lib/modules/2.6.36.2-56-vanilla/kernel/lib/zlib_deflate/zlib_deflate.ko insmod /lib/modules/2.6.36.2-56-vanilla/kernel/lib/lzo/lzo_compress.ko insmod /lib/modules/2.6.36.2-56-vanilla/kernel/fs/reiser4/reiser4.ko After adding in disk via usb [ 51.488771] usb 1-1.2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5 [ 51.584116] usb 1-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=04fc, idProduct=0c25 [ 51.584123] usb 1-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=2, Product=3, SerialNumber=1 [ 51.584129] usb 1-1.2: Product: USB to Serial-ATA bridge [ 51.584135] usb 1-1.2: Manufacturer: Sunplus Technology Inc. [ 51.584139] usb 1-1.2: SerialNumber: ST31000333 5TE04R8W [ 51.618433] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... [ 51.619594] scsi8 : usb-storage 1-1.2:1.0 [ 51.619859] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage [ 51.619862] USB Mass Storage support registered. [ 52.628635] scsi 8:0:0:0: Direct-Access ST310003 33AS PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 [ 52.629100] sd 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 [ 52.631208] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] 1953525168 512-byte logical blocks: (1.00 TB/931 GiB) [ 52.640218] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off [ 52.640225] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 38 00 00 00 [ 52.640228] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through [ 52.644589] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through [ 52.669352] sdb: sdb1 [ 52.673154] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through [ 52.673162] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk [ 145.972234] Loading Reiser4. See www.namesys.com for a description of Reiser4. # mkfs.reiser4 -o create=ccreg40,compress=lzo1 /dev/sdb -fy # fsck.reiser4 --fix /dev/sdb -y ******************************************************************* This is an EXPERIMENTAL version of fsck.reiser4. Read README first. ******************************************************************* Fscking the /dev/sdb block device. Will fix minor corruptions of the Reiser4 SuperBlock. Will fix minor corruptions of the Reiser4 FileSystem. ***** fsck.reiser4 started at Mon Dec 27 16:04:57 2010 Reiser4 fs was detected on /dev/sdb. Master super block (16): magic: ReIsEr4 blksize: 4096 format: 0x0 (format40) uuid: 5602fc26-41a7-4361-b3a7-39a673679f80 label: <none> Format super block (17): plugin: format40 description: Disk-format plugin. version: 0 magic: ReIsEr40FoRmAt mkfs id: 0x62e55157 flushes: 0 blocks: 244190640 free blocks: 244183135 root block: 23 tail policy: 0x2 (smart) next oid: 0x10000 file count: 1 tree height: 2 key policy: LARGE CHECKING THE STORAGE TREE Read nodes 2 Nodes left in the tree 2 Leaves of them 1, Twigs of them 1 Time interval: Mon Dec 27 16:05:52 2010 - Mon Dec 27 16:05:52 2010 CHECKING EXTENT REGIONS. Read twigs 1 Time interval: Mon Dec 27 16:05:52 2010 - Mon Dec 27 16:05:53 2010 CHECKING THE SEMANTIC TREE Found 1 objects (some could be encountered more then once). Time interval: Mon Dec 27 16:05:53 2010 - Mon Dec 27 16:05:53 2010 ***** fsck.reiser4 finished at Mon Dec 27 16:05:53 2010 Closing fs...done FS is consistent. # mkdir /reiser4 # mount -t reiser4 /dev/sdb /reiser4 - commands used in process # mkfs.reiser4 -o create=ccreg40,compress=lzo1 /dev/sdb -fy # fsck.reiser4 --fix /dev/sdb -y # mkdir /reiser4 # mount -t reiser4 /dev/sdb /reiser4 # manually added reiser4 filesystem to /etc/fstab /dev/sdb /reiser4 reiser4 defaults 0 0 Files used see http://www.spinics.net/lists/reiserfs-devel/msg02654.html Cheers Glenn -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe reiserfs-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html