From: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: ext4 development <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mke2fs: make "invalid blocks count" error more clear
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 09:26:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100920132631.GF3554@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C64402C.3050205@redhat.com>
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 02:40:44PM -0400, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Mistakes on the commandline can lead to odd error messages:
>
> # mke2fs -t ext4 -E stride=128 stripe-width=512 /dev/sda1
> mke2fs: invalid blocks count - /dev/sda1
>
> Making it a bit more explicit is more obvious:
>
> mke2fs: invalid blocks count '/dev/sda1' on device 'stripe-width=512'
>
> (hint, the mistake was no comma separation for -E)
>
> Reported-by: Adam Huffman <bloch@verdurin.com>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Applied to the e2fsprogs maint branch, thanks!!
- Ted
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2010-08-12 18:40 [PATCH] mke2fs: make "invalid blocks count" error more clear Eric Sandeen
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