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* [PATCH] mke2fs: make "invalid blocks count" error more clear
@ 2010-08-12 18:40 Eric Sandeen
  2010-09-20 13:26 ` Ted Ts'o
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Eric Sandeen @ 2010-08-12 18:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: ext4 development

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>
---

diff --git a/misc/mke2fs.c b/misc/mke2fs.c
index add7c0c..a34c1ba 100644
--- a/misc/mke2fs.c
+++ b/misc/mke2fs.c
@@ -1415,8 +1415,9 @@ static void PRS(int argc, char *argv[])
 		fs_blocks_count = parse_num_blocks2(argv[optind++],
 						   fs_param.s_log_block_size);
 		if (!fs_blocks_count) {
-			com_err(program_name, 0, _("invalid blocks count - %s"),
-				argv[optind - 1]);
+			com_err(program_name, 0,
+				_("invalid blocks count '%s' on device '%s'"),
+				argv[optind - 1], device_name);
 			exit(1);
 		}
 	}



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* Re: [PATCH] mke2fs: make "invalid blocks count" error more clear
  2010-08-12 18:40 [PATCH] mke2fs: make "invalid blocks count" error more clear Eric Sandeen
@ 2010-09-20 13:26 ` Ted Ts'o
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Ted Ts'o @ 2010-09-20 13:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Eric Sandeen; +Cc: ext4 development

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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