Re: mksf problems

[Walt H <waltabbyh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry, not sure what is going on here either. Just wanted to mention 
that I could relate to your current condition. I too have had bad 
"couch" medicine which rendered me mostly disabled :)

Although, with the *right* kind of couch medicine, I've felt much better 
during and afterwards :-)


I know, pretty bad stuff.

-Walt


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:
>
> [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