Problem with mkfs (fwd)
Hi,
My apologies for posting this to debian-devel, but I havent had
anyone respond to this post on debian-user. Also I've debugged the problem
a little at this point, and I think that the questions I have are a little
above the level of debian-user.
I've traced the problem, below, to the fact that the BLKGETSIZE
ioctl call in getsize.c of the e2fsprogs package fails. This call is
supposed to return the device size - in my case, /dev/hdb5. This is a
logical partition. However, I wrote a test program using the same call to
work on another logical partition, and the call correctly returns the
device size.
So, the $64M question is : what is so special about my partition
that causes the ioctl to fail? I would like to debug the kernel source to
find out what causes this problem. The catch is that I dont have a clue as
to where in the kernel the relevant code would be. I've looked at
/usr/src/linux/fs/ioctl.c and fs/ext2/ioctl.c and neither seem to be
handling the BLKGETSIZE request.
Help!
Jor-el
Your csh still thinks true is false. Write to your vendor today and tell
them that next year Configure ought to "rm /bin/csh" unless they fix their
blasted shell. :-) -- Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 13:56:01 -0500 (CDT)
From: Jor-el <jorel@marvin.megadodo.umb>
Reply-To: jorel@ibm.net
To: Debian User List <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Problem with mkfs
Resent-Date: 18 Jul 1999 18:50:06 -0000
Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ;
Hi,
My /dev/hdb was partitioned into /dev/hdb1 and /dev/hdb2 primary
partitions. I used fdisk to repartition /dev/hdb1. What I did was (1)
delete /dev/hdb1 (2) Create an extended partition replacing the space
occupied by /dev/hdb1 (3) Create two logical partitions in that space :
/dev/hdb5 and /dev/hdb6. Here is what I now get :
/etc#fdisk /dev/hdb
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 525 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 1 200 1606468+ 5 Extended
/dev/hdb2 201 525 2610562+ 83 Linux native
/dev/hdb5 1 70 562212 83 Linux native
/dev/hdb6 71 200 1044193+ 83 Linux native
However, when I now try to create an ext2 filesystem on these
newly created partitions, I get :
/etc#mkfs -t ext2 /dev/hdb5
mke2fs 1.12, 9-Jul-98 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
/dev/hdb5: Invalid argument passed to ext2 library while setting up
superblock
What is going on here? I get the same results with /dev/hdb6. I
read and reread the mkfs and the mke2fs manpages until I became blue in
the face, but I cant find any syntax error in my invocation.
TIA,
Jor-el
PS. The system is running Slink.
Except for 75% of the women, everyone in the whole world wants to have sex.
- Ellyn Mustard
--
Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe debian-user-request@lists.debian.org < /dev/null
Reply to: