On Fri, 2001-09-21 at 20:38, Bret Hughes wrote:
> Bret Hughes wrote:
> >
> > 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:
> >
> <snip>
>
> > 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
>
> Still not sure what the deal was but a reboot fixed it.
If you created the partition after the box was booted and any part of
the disk was in use (mounted, swapon'd, etc) you have to reboot for the
new partition table to be usable.
>
> Bret
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