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From: Alexander Apprich <a.apprich@science-computing.de>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: not able to create XFS filesystem
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 15:17:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4582AE73.9080409@science-computing.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <743683.94860.qm@web32704.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Hi,

chandrasekar mahalingam wrote:
> Hi
>    my RHEL 4 machine (Linux spea44 2.6.9-42.ELsmp #1
> SMP Wed Jul 12 23:32:02 EDT 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64
> GNU/Linux) has the rpm installed for XFS . 
> 
> xorg-x11-xfs-6.8.2-1.EL.13.36 and
> xorg-x11-libs-6.8.2-1.EL.13.36
> 

those packages have nothing to do with the XFS filesystem :-)

> when i try to create a file system using
>  "mkfs -t xfs /dev/sekarvg/simple1" it says "mkfs.XFS:
> No such file or directory" . "lsmod|grep -i xfs " does
> not list xfs . 
> 

AFAIK the XFS filesystem isn't officially supported by
RedHat. You might get them from someplace else like

http://atrpms.net/dist/el4/

But the kernel also need to support xfs.


Hth

Alex

  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-15 14:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-15 12:53 not able to create XFS filesystem chandrasekar mahalingam
2006-12-15 14:17 ` Alexander Apprich [this message]
2006-12-15 14:56   ` Eric Sandeen

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