From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from relay3-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.195]:44303 "EHLO relay3-d.mail.gandi.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932960Ab3CGPJa convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Mar 2013 10:09:30 -0500 Message-ID: <5138ADA6.5070101@petaramesh.org> Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2013 16:09:26 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sw=E2mi_Petaramesh?= MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "BTRFS, Linux" CC: Eric Sandeen , Anand.Jain@oracle.com Subject: Re: mkfs.btrfs broken References: <513883DD.8080203@petaramesh.org> <5138980C.8080000@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <5138980C.8080000@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Le 07/03/2013 14:37, Eric Sandeen a écrit : > What error messages does it emit, anything helpful? root@partedmagic:~# file -s /dev/sda5 /dev/sda5: data root@partedmagic:~# mkfs.btrfs /dev/sda5 WARNING! - Btrfs v0.20-rc1 IS EXPERIMENTAL WARNING! - see http://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org before using error checking /dev/sda5 mount status root@partedmagic:~# echo $? 1 > The option is quite new, and still exists upstream. But it only forces > overwrite of an existing filesystem, it has never affected the mount > status check AFAIK. I remember that, in the past, I was several time able to override this very error by using a -f switch... > There are also steps you could take to investigate some more yourself: > Did earlier versions of the livecd work for you? If so, when did it break? It was broke first time I tried to use it more than a year ago ; I don't clearly remember if it has been fixed at some point in time... I'm positively sure that I saw the exact same error on other live distros (possibly Ubuntu but not sure...) > Can you capture an strace of the failing mkfs.btrfs? -Eric I don't know how to do this, I'm no developper myself... Kind regards. -- Swâmi Petaramesh http://petaramesh.org PGP 9076E32E Ne cherchez pas : Je ne suis pas sur Facebook.