I'm trying to mount a reiserfs partition on my Debian system, but to no avail. I already did apt-get install to fetch the reiserfs kernel image (2.2.19-reiserfs) and I also recompiled the kernel from scratch (2.2.19) with the patches applied. Everything seems to boot fine.
Now, I created a 10GB partition (/dev/hda9) and ran mkreiserfs /dev/hda9. It makes the fs ok. Even debugreiserfs confirms this. Now, anytime I try to mount the partition (even after rebooting just to make sure) with:
mount -t reiserfs /dev/hda9 /home
(/home does exist and empty, and no entry in /etc/fstab),
I get
reiserfs_read_super: can't find a reiserfs filesystem on dev 03:09
reiserfs_read_super: try to find super block in old location
reiserfs_read_super: can't find a reiserfs filesystem on dev 03:09
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda9,
or too many mounted file systems

/dev/hda9 is a partition in an extended partition with other Linux (ext2) partitions.

What am I missing? All I want to do is have a reiserfs partition. Not trying to install it on the boot partition or anything like that.

If I reformat with mke2fs, it'll mount just fine.

Thanks.

- David