Re: mkfs.xfs Fails

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sgi.com>]

Hi Quang -

I don't see offhand where the problem might be.  Can you send the exact
error message, and maybe run mkfs.xfs through strace (strace mkfs.xfs
/dev/hdb2) and send the output?  (if it's long just send it direct to me.)

Thanks,

-Eric

On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Quang Nguyen wrote:

> Anyway, I ran mkfs.ext2 and mkfs.reiserfs and they both formatted it fine.
> Just that mkfs.xfs -f /dev/hdb2 thinks it's busy or in use.
>
> Could you tell me where in the src code of mkfs.xfs I can modify to force it
> to format?
>
> Thanks,
> Quang
>