Re: Reiserfs support not working

[Andrew Clausen]

On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 06:23:12PM +0200, Joosep-Georg J?rvemaa wrote:
> I installed libreiserfs, but no automatic enabling happens (as
> documentation promises) and parted keeps telling me, that it can not
> open my reiserfs partition.
> 
> Can you please provide some additional information, how exactly
> install libreiserfs or how to help parted to detect libreiserfs
> installation?

It works like any other library... it needs to be installed into
a path found in /etc/ld.so.conf.  Some [stupid?] distros don't
include /usr/local/lib, which is the default path for libreiserfs.

Hint: you can use strace(1) to get an idea of what programs are
trying to do.

Cheers,
Andrew