Mark Wolforth wrote:
Did you try rebooting after partitioning the disk?
Sometime when creating primary dos partitions
the system needs to be rebooted so the bios find the updated size.
Since ext2 finds the correct size we may need to look at how it
does size discovery.
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to create a XFS file system on a Storage Concepts FibreBlock
> Fibre Channel disk array. I create a Linux partition with fdisk, with the
> following parameters:
>
> ------------
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 9345 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 2048 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sda1 1 9345 300254724 83 Linux
>
> ------------
>
> When I subsequently try to create the XFS file system I get:
>
> ------------
>
> mkfs -t xfs -f /dev/sda1
>
> meta-data=/dev/sda1 isize=256 agcount=287, agsize=261546
> blks
> data = bsize=4096 blocks=75063681, imaxpct=25
> = sunit=0 swidth=0 blks, unwritten=0
> naming =version 2 bsize=4096
> log =internal log bsize=4096 blocks=9163
> realtime =none extsz=65536 blocks=0, rtextents=0
> mkfs.xfs: read failed: Input/output error
> mkfs.xfs: data size check failed
> mkfs.xfs: mount initialization failed
>
> ------------
>
> Although this fails, I can successfully create a Linux ext2 file system on
> the same partition, so I am confident that the physical hardware works.
> Additionally, I can successfully create a XFS file system on a local IDE
> hard disk, so I am fairly confident that the XFS stuff is correctly
> installed.
>
> cat /proc/filesystems suggests that XFS is supported by the kernel I am
> using, and I downloaded the latest XFS tools from the OSS SGI web site.
>
> Any idea why I cannot create the file system?
>
> Best regards,
> Mark.
>
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