[DRBD-user] Creating a drbd1 device....

Lars Marowsky-Bree lmb at suse.de
Wed Jan 26 09:53:21 CET 2005

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On 2005-01-26T06:16:26, Robert <robert at estrell.com> wrote:

> after the partition was created, I did a mkfs -t ext3 /dev/hdb1
> 
> then here is the part I am not sure about...
> I created the /dev/drbd1 by using
> 
> drbdsetup /dev/drbd1 disk /dev/hdb1 internal -1  

This is already the wrong order. You should have run mkfs.ext3 on the
/dev/drbd1 device, not on the raw physical disk.


Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb at suse.de>

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