New file system error messages

DotHQ · 03-21-2007, 10:40 AM

I've connected to a SAN using RHEL 4 and have fdisk'd the dev's in question.
Now when I do a mk2efs I get:
bad reserved blocks percent

I have shortened the command to the basics but still get the error message ...here is the short command:
mke2fs -m /redo1 /dev/emcpowera3

any ideas?

macemoneta · 03-21-2007, 11:31 AM

The '-m' option sets the percentage of reserved blocks, and the parameter '/redo1' is not a valid number. From the man page:

Quote:

-m reserved-blocks-percentage
Specify the percentage of the filesystem blocks reserved for the
super-user. This avoids fragmentation, and allows root-owned
daemons, such as syslogd(8), to continue to function correctly
after non-privileged processes are prevented from writing to the
filesystem. The default percentage is 5%.

I normally set the reserved block percentage to zero.

DotHQ · 03-21-2007, 11:43 AM

Doh!!!! Thanks. I read the man page and missed that.