[linux-lvm] Problem mounting ext2 fs on LVM
Andreas Dilger
adilger at turbolinux.com
Tue Feb 27 17:02:47 UTC 2001
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
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