perhaps I'm wrong, but mkfs need a partition device (/dev/sdb1 for
example), not the device itself (/dev/sdb), doesn't it ?
shouldn't be :
whatever:~# mkfs -t xfs -f /dev/sdb1
^
what happen with a device argument (boot sector, partitions, etc etc) ?
>
> Im getting this info when im trying to create xfs filesystem on 400GB
> system :
>
> whatever:~# mkfs -t xfs -f /dev/sdb
> mkfs.xfs: warning - cannot set blocksize on block device /dev/sdb:
Invalid
> argument
>
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> meta-data=/dev/sdb isize=256 agcount=100,
agsize=1048576 blks
> data = bsize=4096 blocks=104248032,
imaxpct=25
> = sunit=0 swidth=0 blks, unwritten=0
> naming =version 2 bsize=4096
> log =internal log bsize=4096 blocks=12725
> realtime =none extsz=65536 blocks=0, rtextents=0
>
> It exits fine and i can mount the disk afterward but somehow im not
> satisfied? Could somebody tell me if this is okie or not?
>
> --
> Venlig hilsen/Kind regards
> Thomas Kirk
> ARKENA
> thomas(at)arkena(dot)com
> Http://www.arkena.com
>
>
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