Suse Linux Enterprise desktop boot problem

[gcarlisle]

When attempting to start desktop running SLED 11 the following error is returned;

mount: unknown filesystem type 'RIESERFS'
could not mount root file system -- exiting to /bin/sh

We think that the disk may be full but can not find a way to get where we can remove any files to make disk space does anyone have any ideas what we may be able to do? We would rather not reinstall the OS and lose personal files.

Thanks in advance for any help.

[gogalthorp]

Boot from a CD like gparted and do a fdisk -l to list the drives and partitions.

You can also do file maintenance there if the the file system is still in one piece.

[D-cat]

Do the live CD boot, then check your /etc/fstab...

it's supposed to be spelled reiserfs , all lower case.

Reiser has enough problems; I learned a while ago not to boot from it... whatever partition you boot from works best as ext type... this becomes especially evident after a crash or power inturruption... it still works, just takes forever and a day.

Anyway, the fdisk -l doesn't help much, it'll just verify that you are indeed using a Linux filesystem. If you can't get the machine to boot, still post it though, along with the contents of /etc/fstab and the output of
ls -l /dev/disk/by-id please. Thank you.