Re: mkfs.xfs says "can't determine device size"

[Steve Lord <lord@sgi.com>]

On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 12:26, Alvaro Figueroa wrote:
> mkfs -t xfs -f /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target8/lun0/part1 
> 
> mkfs.xfs: warning - cannot set blocksize on block device
> /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target8/lun0/part1: Invalid argument
> mkfs.xfs: can't determine device size
> 
> 
> I have a sparc64 box, using devfs and a CVS kernel (2 days ago or
> something like that). On sparc, one generally uses a "Sun Label", this
> disk is partitioned as follows.
> 
> 
> Disk /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target8/lun0/disc (Sun disk label): 19 heads,
> 80 sectors, 2733 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 1520 * 512 bytes
> 
>                                  Device Flag    Start       End   
> Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target8/lun0/disc1             1      2733  
> 2076320   83  Linux native
> /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target8/lun0/disc3             0      2733  
> 2077080    5  Whole disk
> 
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> -- 
> Alvaro Figueroa

Any chance strace exists for sparc64, could you run strace -s on the
mkfs.xfs process.

I suspect the size is supposed to come out of an ioctl and it won't 
interpret that, but it might tell us something.

Steve

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Steve Lord                                      voice: +1-651-683-3511
Principal Engineer, Filesystem Software         email: lord@sgi.com