disk partitions on that aren't recognized by mkfs + parted

Doll, Margaret Ann margaret_doll at brown.edu
Wed May 4 12:55:11 UTC 2011


I rebooted the system and ran partprobe on all the four disks that are
causing a problem.


>partprobe /dev/sdi
>mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sdi1
mke2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006)
/dev/sdi1 is apparently in use by the system; will not make a filesystem
here!

cat /proc/partitions has added the partition of the four disks after I did
the partprobe on them.




On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Geofrey Rainey <Geofrey.Rainey at tvnz.co.nz>wrote:

> Did you run "partprobe" or alternatively have you tried a reboot?
>
>
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> Subject: disk partitions on that aren't recognized by mkfs + parted
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> I successfully made a logical volume out of four disks.  I am now
> attempting
> to do the same to another four disks on the same system.
>
> "fdisk -l"
>
> shows a similar result for each of the new four
>
> Disk /dev/sdk1:  2000.3 Gb, 2000398923016 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders
> Units  cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
>  Device Boot     Start     End      Blocks         Id    System
> /dev/sdk1           1          243201  1953512001  83   Linux
>
> parted sees them as
>
> Model:  ATA WDC WD20EAD5-98R (scsi)
> Disk /dev/sdk:  2000GB
> Sector size (logical/physical):  512B/512B
> partition Table:  msdos
>
> Number  Start   End   Size   Type    File system  Flags
> 1             32.3kB 2000Gb  2000GB primary
>
> but mkfs doesn't work
>
> mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sdk1
> make2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006)
> Could not stat /dev/sdk1 --- No such file or directory
>
> Same results with "mke2fs -j"
>
> cat /proc/partitions shows for the disks that worked:
>
> 8   96   1953514584  sdg
> 8   97   1953512001  sdg1
>
> for the disks that don't work:
>
> 8  112   1953514584  sdk
>
> parted is version  1.8.1-27.el5.  I have the system completely updated.
> 2.6.18-238.9.1.el5xen
> I understand that parted is sometimes a problem.   Should I download
> gparted?
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