From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Sandeen Subject: Re: New warning: Unable to get device geometry for [filename] Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:57:27 -0600 Message-ID: <4F237227.2000208@redhat.com> References: <20120127225346.GA7449@amd.home.annexia.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: "Richard W.M. Jones" Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:21376 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751666Ab2A1D52 (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:57:28 -0500 Received: from int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.12]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q0S3vSu5026586 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:57:28 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20120127225346.GA7449@amd.home.annexia.org> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 1/27/12 4:53 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > I've just noticed that with the latest e2fsprogs, kernel 3.3.0 and > blkid (util-linux 2.20.1), I see this spurious warning when using > mke2fs on a file: > > $ truncate -s 4G test1.img > $ mke2fs -t ext2 -q -F test1.img > warning: Unable to get device geometry for test1.img > > Oddly this *doesn't* happen except on the very bleeding edge latest > versions of everything. I've not (yet) worked out exactly what > component has to be upgraded to see it ... Taking a quick look, I don't _think_ anything above blkid changed in e2fsprogs lately, but keep us posted. Does mkfs.xfs do any differently? thanks, -Eric > Rich. >