Hi,
I am in a bind, and I feel like I am really close to a solution, but I can't
wrap my brain around it. Anyways, here is my situation. I removed two
disks off of an Indigo2. They were formatted with the SGI XFS filesystem.
I have a RedHat 6.2 system that I needed to put the disks onto. I followed
all of the instructions at http://linux-xfs.sgi.com/projects/xfs/pr_rpm.html,
and everything went smoothly. I rebooted with the XFS kernel, and I don't
receive any error messages. I load the kernel module for my SCSI adapter,
and everything works fine. I used fdisk to get a look at the partition map
for the drives, and they look like this:
Script started on Tue Feb 27 15:03:29 2001
[root@afni arnold]# /sbin/fdisk /dev/sda
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sda (SGI disk label): 10 heads, 320 sectors, 11201 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 3200 * 512 bytes
----- partitions -----
Device Info Start End Sectors Id System
/dev/sda8 2 11201 35839574 a SGI xfs
/dev/sda9 0 1 4096 0 SGI volhdr
/dev/sda11 0 11201 35843670 6 SGI volume
----- bootinfo -----
Bootfile: /unix
----- directory entries -----
Command (m for help): q
Script started on Tue Feb 27 15:04:23 2001
[root@afni arnold]# /sbin/fdisk /dev/sdb
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sdb (SGI disk label): 10 heads, 218 sectors, 8188 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2180 * 512 bytes
----- partitions -----
Device Info Start End Sectors Id System
/dev/sdb8 2 8188 17845904 a SGI xfs
/dev/sdb9 0 1 4096 0 SGI volhdr
/dev/sdb11 0 8188 17850000 6 SGI volume
----- bootinfo -----
Bootfile: /unix
----- directory entries -----
Command (m for help): q
So, I can see the disks. However, when I try to mount them, my system returns
the error:
[root@afni arnold]# /bin/mount -t xfs /dev/sda8 /mnt/disk2
mount: /dev/sda8 is not a valid block device
an lsmod shows:
[root@afni arnold]# /sbin/lsmod
Module Size Used by
vfat 13397 0 (autoclean)
fat 39567 0 (autoclean) [vfat]
xfs 429502 0 (autoclean) (unused)
pagebuf 42047 0 (autoclean) [xfs]
aic7xxx 140890 0
3c59x 24785 1 (autoclean)
es1371 27339 0
soundcore 6614 5 [es1371]
ac97_codec 8448 0 [es1371]
For documentation purposes, here is my kernel version:
[root@afni arnold]# uname -a
Linux afni 2.4.0-XFS_BETA_4 #1 Tue Nov 28 08:08:58 CST 2000 i686 unknown
I'd appreciate any thoughts anyone might have.
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