From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Andreas Dilger Message-Id: <200102271702.f1RH2lm27059@webber.adilger.net> Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Problem mounting ext2 fs on LVM In-Reply-To: from Urs Thuermann at "Feb 27, 2001 04:23:33 pm" Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 10:02:47 -0700 (MST) Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com Urs writes: > After having decided that the performance problem I described in the > other thread in this ML are probably not that important for me, I > tried to create an ext2 fs with 1024 byte blocks on a 1 GB LV. > > But I can't mount it after creating the fs. I can mount it if I > create it on sda5 instead of the LV, or if I choose 4K block size. > > isnogud:/root# mount /dev/vg0/test /mnt > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/vg0/test, > or too many mounted file systems What does it say in the syslog? This will tell you why ext2 thinks it can't mount, and will give us a clue on how to fix LVM. I'm guessing that when ext2 tries to set the blocksize to 1k it fails. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and a pound of antipasto, \ would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?" http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ -- Dogbert