Cannot mount reformatted partition

[shimonl]

Hi,

Running PCLinuxOS 2009.
I had a partition formatted with ReiserFS.
I was trying to create a large file (a clone of a VirtualBox
.vdi file) and it kept stopping me at 2GB,
so I decided to reformat with ext3.

a) I deleted or moved all data
b) sudo mkfs -V -t ext3 /dev/sda11
c) sudo e2label /dev/sda11 VDIBKP

This appeared to have worked:
$ sudo blkid /dev/sda11
/dev/sda11: LABEL="VDIBKP" UUID="f80616fa-147b-4810-aa6d-3b7c236a4cfb" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"

However, when I try to mount the disk in konqueror,
I get this pop up message:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda11, missing codepage or helper program, or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so

Here is output from dmesg:
ReiserFS: sda11: found reiserfs format "3.5" with standard journal
ReiserFS: sda11: using ordered data mode
ReiserFS: sda11: journal params: device sda11, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
ReiserFS: sda11: checking transaction log (sda11)
ReiserFS: sda11: Using r5 hash to sort names
ReiserFS: sda11: using 3.5.x disk format
ReiserFS: sda11: warning: sh-2021: reiserfs_fill_super: can not find reiserfs on sda11
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on sda11, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
ReiserFS: sda11: warning: sh-2021: reiserfs_fill_super: can not find reiserfs on sda11
ReiserFS: sda11: warning: sh-2021: reiserfs_fill_super: can not find reiserfs on sda11
ReiserFS: sda11: warning: sh-2021: reiserfs_fill_super: can not find reiserfs on sda11
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on sda11, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
ReiserFS: sda11: warning: sh-2021: reiserfs_fill_super: can not find reiserfs on sda11
ReiserFS: sda11: warning: sh-2021: reiserfs_fill_super: can not find reiserfs on sda11
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on sda11, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
ReiserFS: sda11: warning: sh-2021: reiserfs_fill_super: can not find reiserfs on sda11

Something seems to still think there is ReiserFS on that disk!
But why?

In cli I can only mount as root, but that DOES seem to work:
$ mount /dev/sda11 /mnt/temp
mount: only root can do that
$ sudo mount /dev/sda11 /mnt/temp
$ mount
<snip other disks>
/dev/sda11 on /mnt/temp type ext3 (rw)

I hope I have put enough information for someone to see what my mistake is!

Thanks,
Shimon

P.S. I got a suggestion that the partition might be marked as ReiserFS in fstab.
Unfortunately that is not the case (it would be too easy, right?). It turns out
that I had removed this partition from the fstab, (and commented out its lines)
*months* ago, when I moved my personal data to a different partition.
(At the time I also changed all of the mounts to be UUID based).

$ grep sda11 /etc/fstab
# Entry for /home/shimon - /dev/sda11 :
# /dev/sda11 /home/shimon reiserfs defaults 0 0

$ ls -al /etc/fstab
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1582 Dec 30 17:23 /etc/fstab

Thank you!

[rcgreen]

I think it is normal that only root can mount partitions,
unless the options in fstab say different. If you create
the line in fstab, and identify it as EXT3, and give users
permission to mount, you will be OK.
As for the messages in dmesg, perhaps it is how the
partition is flagged in the MBR. Issue the command
fdisk -l to see your partitions listed.

[shimonl]

That is true of the command line "mount", but Konqueror allows me as a user to mount any partition (except this one which fails).
The partitions listed in my /etc/fstab are only the ones I want mounted automatically at boot.