I am unable to create a filesystem on a raid 5 volume on a compaq 3000.
I finally(with the help of this list ) got XFS installed and running
after hosing the MBR now I need to add an additional partition to this
box with some of the left over space. I used fdisk /dev/ida/c0d0 to
create a new 10GB partition and it appears to have worked:
[root@compaq3 /sbin]# fdisk -l /dev/ida/c0d0
Disk /dev/ida/c0d0: 255 heads, 32 sectors, 8711 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8160 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/ida/c0d0p1 * 10 22 53040 83 Linux
/dev/ida/c0d0p2 23 8711 35451120 5 Extended
/dev/ida/c0d0p3 1 9 36704 12 Compaq
diagnostics
/dev/ida/c0d0p5 23 73 208064 82 Linux swap
/dev/ida/c0d0p6 74 136 257024 83 Linux
/dev/ida/c0d0p7 137 199 257024 83 Linux
/dev/ida/c0d0p8 200 262 257024 83 Linux
/dev/ida/c0d0p9 263 764 2048144 83 Linux
/dev/ida/c0d0p10 765 2019 5120384 83 Linux
/dev/ida/c0d0p11 2020 4529 10240784 83 Linux
Partition table entries are not in disk order
c0d0p11 is the new partition.
when I try to create the filesytem I get this:
[root@compaq3 /sbin]# mkfs -t xfs /dev/ida/c0d0p11
mkfs.xfs: cannot open /dev/ida/c0d0p11: No such device or address
the device file is there:
[root@compaq3 /sbin]# ls -l /dev/ida/c0d0*
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 72, 0 Mar 23 22:37 /dev/ida/c0d0
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 72, 1 Mar 23 22:37 /dev/ida/c0d0p1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 72, 10 Mar 23 22:37 /dev/ida/c0d0p10
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 72, 11 Mar 23 22:37 /dev/ida/c0d0p11
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 72, 12 Mar 23 22:37 /dev/ida/c0d0p12
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 72, 13 Mar 23 22:37 /dev/ida/c0d0p13
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 72, 14 Mar 23 22:37 /dev/ida/c0d0p14
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 72, 15 Mar 23 22:37 /dev/ida/c0d0p15
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 72, 2 Mar 23 22:37 /dev/ida/c0d0p2
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 72, 3 Mar 23 22:37 /dev/ida/c0d0p3
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 72, 4 Mar 23 22:37 /dev/ida/c0d0p4
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 72, 5 Mar 23 22:37 /dev/ida/c0d0p5
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 72, 6 Mar 23 22:37 /dev/ida/c0d0p6
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 72, 7 Mar 23 22:37 /dev/ida/c0d0p7
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 72, 8 Mar 23 22:37 /dev/ida/c0d0p8
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 72, 9 Mar 23 22:37 /dev/ida/c0d0p9
Any ideas about what am I doing wrong? I have a terrible cold and am
under the influence of couch medicine so I may be missing something
simple.
Bret
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