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Quote Originally Posted by thirdrock68
Does anyone have any suggestions what I should do now before proceeding with the machine-gun approach
What type of filesystem is on /dev/hdb4? I ask because only certain filesystems will be accepted for a persistent disk image (PDI). For example, if /dev/hdb4 is ext2 you won't be able to use a PDI. However, if you convert the ext2 to an ext3, you can. To convert, use this command:
Code:
tune2fs -O has_journal /dev/hdb4
Specifically, the filesystem on /dev/hdb4 must be one of the following: vfat, msdos, ntfs, ext3, reiserfs, xfs. I suspect that there is a bug in line 1059 of the /etc/init.d/knoppix-autoconfig script, since it's rather odd specifying ext3 twice and omitting ext2:
Code:
    ext3|ext3|reiserfs|xfs) MOUNTOPTS="$MOUNTOPTS,noatime" ;;
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- Robert
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