Re: mkfs.xfs primary bootable partition issue

[Ben Ford <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I'm trying to hack an XFS Debian potato install and I
> have gotten pretty far but have ran into a wall.
>
> My partitions are set up with cfdisk as follows:
>
> /dev/hda   (boot flag set primary) /boot
> /dev/hda5  (logical)               /
> /dev/hda6  (logical)               /swap
> /dev/hda7  (logical)               /var 
>
> when I run mkfs.xfs on /dev/hda I get some strange
> results
One question . . . you did mean /dev/hda1, didn't you??

/dev/hda is the disk and /dev/hda1 is the first partition.

-b


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