From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luca Berra Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] can't make new filesystems? Message-ID: <20021113083216.GB25918@percy.comedia.it> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Wed Nov 13 02:33:02 2002 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Linux LVM Sistina On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 06:19:20PM -0600, Alexander Lazarevich wrote: [vc/2]bluca@Moskowskaya:~% mkfs.ext3 mke2fs 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) Usage: mkfs.ext3 [-c|-t|-l filename] [-b block-size] [-f fragment-size] [-i bytes-per-inode] [-j] [-J journal-options] [-N number-of-inodes] [-m reserved-blocks-percentage] [-o creator-os] [-g blocks-per-group] [-L volume-label] [-M last-mounted-directory] [-O feature[,...]] [-r fs-revision] [-R raid_opts] [-qvSV] device [blocks-count] this says the last (only) two non option arguments are the device and the number of blocks the device has. >[root@discord root]# mkfs.ext3 /dev/homevg/stafflv /home/staff >mke2fs 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) >mkfs.ext3: bad blocks count - /home/staff this error says that the string '/home/staff' does not look like a number of blocks at all. L. -- Luca Berra -- bluca@comedia.it Communication Media & Services S.r.l. /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN X AGAINST HTML MAIL / \