Re: Mistaken partition and format process
On 3/10/08, Jeff D <fixedored@gmail.com> wrote:
> hce wrote:
> > On 3/10/08, Douglas A. Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote:
> >> On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 05:32:25PM +1100, hce wrote:
> >> > I am partitioning and formating an external HDD. I made a stupid
> >> > mistake, I called "mkfs.ext3 /dev/md0" before calling "fdisk
> >> > /dev/md0". Now it seems that the process stopped at following last
> >> > line "Writing inode tables: 14/1864":
> >>
> >>
> >> /dev/md0 would be the first raid array. You have an external drive as
> >> part of a raid array? I'm not saying that its not useful, I'm just
> >> clarifying.
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> >> Without running fdisk to create a partition, you've attempted to write a
> >> filesystem on the whole device. There shouldn't be a problem with this
> >> so I don't know what the problem is.
> >
> > The process was freezed at "Writing inode tables: ...", I was afaid to
> > cause an encosure and external HDD damange if I kill the process. I
> > waited for 5 hours, the format process was still stuck at the last
> > line, I have no choice but kill the process before going to sleep. I
> > could not event kill the process, and could not event turn my PC off,
> > the whole system was stuck. I had to physically switched the PC power
> > off. It was a mess.
> >
> > Anyway, now I am restarting the fdisk and mkfs.ext3. I made only one
> > partition for the whole 250 G, that the command "mkfs.ext3 /dev/md0"
> > once again stuck at last line of "Writing inode tables: ...". I can
> > only thought of following problems:
> >
> > (a) The partition of 250 G is too big, the debian system or encolusre
> > or HDD is not eable to do a format on 250 G. Is it correct? If so,
> > what is the largest the parttion I can make in Debian 4.0 system?
> >
> > (b) The enclusure or HDD is not functional properly?
> >
> > (c) My command to partition and format is not correct?
> >
> > Thanks Doug.
> >
> >
>
>
> 250G partition should not be a problem at all with ext3, depending on
> architecture, ext3 can go as high as 32T. It seems as though you might
> have some hardware issues though. Have you tested each disk in your
> raid separately?
No. Did you mean I should take the HDD from an enclusure and install
it to a linux box for testing?
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