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Re: Problem while I formatting

To: Jan Derfinak <ja@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Problem while I formatting
From: Stephen Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
Date: 04 Mar 2003 07:26:27 -0600
Cc: "'Linto Joseph Mathew" <linto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0303041410320.1149-100000@alienAngel.home.sk>
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On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 07:14, Jan Derfinak wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, 'Linto Joseph Mathew wrote:
> 
> >  Greetings jan,
> >      I tried the same thing on my another partition, ie /dev/hda5 of size
> > 5 GB.But still it showing the same err.I don't understand what is this?
> > Is xfs needed primary partition?
> No.
> 
> Please show us mkfs.xfs -V, kernel version.
> Do you have self compiled xfsprogs or binary one?
> How you run mkfs.xfs?
> 
> 

I suspect you need a newer mkfs.xfs binary, also, if you are getting
output like this:
meta-data=/dev/sda2              isize=256    agcount=8, agsize=64511
blks
data     =                       bsize=4096   blocks=516088, imaxpct=25
         =                       sunit=0      swidth=0 blks, unwritten=0
naming   =version 2              bsize=4096  
log      =internal log           bsize=4096   blocks=1200, version=1
         =                       sunit=0 blks
realtime =none                   extsz=65536  blocks=0, rtextents=0

It actually worked. There is an ioctl call which xfs attempts to use,
it is not implemented by all block devices and mkfs actually carries
on after the failure anyway.

Steve




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