Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263717AbTEEQ4c (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2003 12:56:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263704AbTEEQ4C (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2003 12:56:02 -0400 Received: from mail.goshen.edu ([199.8.232.22]:63956 "EHLO mail.goshen.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263700AbTEEQyu (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2003 12:54:50 -0400 Subject: Re: partitions in meta devices From: Ezra Nugroho To: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <3EB69883.8090609@gmx.net> References: <1052153060.29588.196.camel@ezran.goshen.edu> <3EB693B1.9020505@gmx.net> <1052153834.29676.219.camel@ezran.goshen.edu> <3EB69883.8090609@gmx.net> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 (1.0.8-9.7x.1) Date: 05 May 2003 12:21:24 -0500 Message-Id: <1052155284.29676.250.camel@ezran.goshen.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner: Found to be clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1983 Lines: 75 On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 11:59, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > Ezra Nugroho wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 11:39, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > > > >>Ezra Nugroho wrote: > >> > >>>however, I couldn't create any file system for them, or mount them. > >>>/dev/md0px just don't exist. > >>> > >> > >>Please reboot after partitioning. > > > > I did. Nothing changed. fdisk reported the changes still. > > OK. Maybe I wasn't clear enough. > 1. Partition a drive > 2. Reboot > 3. Now the kernel should see the partitions and let you create file > systems on them. Did all that, kernel didn't see the partition. > You rebooted and fdisk sees the partitions now. Fine. Please try to > mke2fs /dev/md0p1 This didn't work, because /dev/md0p1 doesn't exists. > That should work. If it doesn't, devfs could be the problem. It could be. > Could you please tell us which kernel version you're using? My linux is: Linux version 2.4.20 (root@localhost) (gcc version 3.2.2) kernel config related to raid: # # Multi-device support (RAID and LVM) # CONFIG_MD=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD=m CONFIG_MD_LINEAR=m CONFIG_MD_RAID0=m CONFIG_MD_RAID1=m CONFIG_MD_RAID5=m CONFIG_MD_MULTIPATH=m # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LVM is not set My raidtab is: raiddev /dev/md0 raid-level 5 nr-raid-disks 3 nr-spare-disks 0 persistent-superblock 1 chunk-size 32 parity-algorithm left-symmetric device /dev/hdc raid-disk 0 device /dev/hde raid-disk 1 device /dev/hdg raid-disk 2 any idea? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/