cant make a reiserfs partition. IMPORTANT!!

[robak]

Hi !!

I'm trying to install gentoo-linux on my system and made 3 partitions on my hd.
so i started fdisk (fdisk /dev/hde) and created 3 primary partitions.
first should be ext3-fs
second is swap
third should be reiserfs.

here's what i did after creating the partitions with fdisk:

mk2fs -j /dev/hde1
mkswap /dev/hde2
mkreiserfs /dev/hde3

after that nothing has changed. so i started fdisk again and changed the fs
/dev/hde1 and /dev/hde2 had changed to ext3 and swap after that but /dev/hde3 is still ext2. even if i mounted them all.

what did i do wrong??

please help cuz i need linux urgent

thx in advance!!

[Dolda2000]

so i started fdisk again and changed the fs
/dev/hde1 and /dev/hde2 had changed to ext3 and swap after that but /dev/hde3 is still ext2.

Where did you get that data (ie. that hde1 is ext3, hde2 is swap and hde3 is ext2)? If you mount hde3 and check /proc/mounts, what does it report that it is?

[robak]

it says:

Permission denied! *g

anyway, i mounted /dev/hde3 (which should be reiserfs) and there it says

mounted ......
Reiserfs v 3.6.25

so, the prob is solved
i didn't recongzie it before, may be i was to tiered

but another question:

in fdisk i get for the ext3 and the reiserfs partition the ID 83. is it for ALL linux fs??

shame on me but i still have an w2k system running for backups and posting here if linux is still installing, and (sucked) partitionmagic says that the reiserfs partition is still ext2. i think its a damn partitionmagic error but if its not, why does linux mount it as an reiserfs and windoze says its ext2??

bsw: Dolda, i recongized that you THE GENIUS here *g, can U answer my last question pls?

[Dolda2000]

Yeah, you're supposed to use ID 83 for all Linux filesystems, except the swap partition which should have 82. That's really wrong - all filesystems should have its own ID, but it doesn't actually matter, so noone cares. =)

Yeah, I would indeed guess that it is an error with partitionmagic. I wouldn't trust partitionmagic to do anything right. I never did for me...

[robak]

but what ID have the filesystems

ext3
reiserfs

??

does anybody know?
cuz fdisk only shows ID 83 for LINUX and ID 82 for LINUX-swap

[lordnothing]

ext2, ext3, reifser, jfs, and xfs all use type 83
linux swap is type 82