Problem with mkfs
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From: Johannes D.H. Beekhuizen on 2 Jul 2010 03:49 Hi, I've put a new disk in my system, and divided it into 4 partition of about 125g. When I try to do a mk(e2)fs on ,I get the following: root(a)duinheks:/# mke2fs /dev/sdc1 mke2fs 1.41.8 (11-July-2009) mke2fs: inode_size (128) * inodes_count (0) too big for a filesystem with 0 blocks, specify higher inode_ratio (-i) or lower inode count (-N). What's happening here and how do I solve it? Thanks in advance for your helpful advice, -- Regards, Hans.
From: Mike Jones on 2 Jul 2010 05:28 Responding to Johannes D.H. Beekhuizen: > Hi, I've put a new disk in my system, and divided it into 4 partition of > about 125g. > When I try to do a mk(e2)fs on ,I get the following: root(a)duinheks:/# > mke2fs /dev/sdc1 > mke2fs 1.41.8 (11-July-2009) > mke2fs: inode_size (128) * inodes_count (0) too big for a > filesystem with 0 blocks, specify higher inode_ratio (-i) or > lower inode count (-N). > What's happening here and how do I solve it? Thanks in advance for your > helpful advice, A 125GB ext2 partition! Fun! Why are you not using mkfs.ext3? -- *=( http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/ *=( For all your UK news needs.
From: Hans on 2 Jul 2010 13:20 On 07/02/2010 11:28 AM, Mike Jones wrote: > Responding to Johannes D.H. Beekhuizen: > >> Hi, I've put a new disk in my system, and divided it into 4 partition of >> about 125g. >> When I try to do a mk(e2)fs on ,I get the following: root(a)duinheks:/# >> mke2fs /dev/sdc1 >> mke2fs 1.41.8 (11-July-2009) >> mke2fs: inode_size (128) * inodes_count (0) too big for a >> filesystem with 0 blocks, specify higher inode_ratio (-i) or >> lower inode count (-N). >> What's happening here and how do I solve it? Thanks in advance for your >> helpful advice, > > > A 125GB ext2 partition! Fun! > > Why are you not using mkfs.ext3? > or mkfs.ext4 -- Hans
From: Mike Jones on 2 Jul 2010 18:03 Responding to Hans: > On 07/02/2010 11:28 AM, Mike Jones wrote: >> Responding to Johannes D.H. Beekhuizen: >> >>> Hi, I've put a new disk in my system, and divided it into 4 partition >>> of about 125g. >>> When I try to do a mk(e2)fs on ,I get the following: root(a)duinheks:/# >>> mke2fs /dev/sdc1 >>> mke2fs 1.41.8 (11-July-2009) >>> mke2fs: inode_size (128) * inodes_count (0) too big for a >>> filesystem with 0 blocks, specify higher inode_ratio (-i) or >>> lower inode count (-N). >>> What's happening here and how do I solve it? Thanks in advance for >>> your helpful advice, >> >> >> A 125GB ext2 partition! Fun! >> >> Why are you not using mkfs.ext3? >> >> > or mkfs.ext4 /Thats/ self explanatory. ;) -- *=( http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/ *=( For all your UK news needs.
From: Robert Komar on 3 Jul 2010 01:50
Johannes D.H. Beekhuizen <jbeekhui(a)duinheks.nl> wrote: > Hi, I've put a new disk in my system, and divided it into 4 partition of > about 125g. > When I try to do a mk(e2)fs on ,I get the following: > root(a)duinheks:/# mke2fs /dev/sdc1 > mke2fs 1.41.8 (11-July-2009) > mke2fs: inode_size (128) * inodes_count (0) too big for a > filesystem with 0 blocks, specify higher inode_ratio (-i) > or lower inode count (-N). > What's happening here and how do I solve it? > Thanks in advance for your helpful advice, I've formatted larger partitions than that with ext2 and never had a problem (I've got a 2TB one mounted right now). The inodes_count of 0 and "filesystem with 0 blocks" is suspicious. Are you sure that /dev/sdc1 is the correct device name and that the partition table is correct? Also, use "-m 1" with mke2fs to limit the reserved precentage to 1%. The default of 5% is pretty wasteful for such large partitions. If you're just going to store large files on the disk, then "-T largefile" would probably help. Cheers, Rob Komar |