[DRBD-user] mke2fs not working

Lars Ellenberg Lars.Ellenberg at linbit.com
Thu Jul 22 12:07:13 CEST 2004

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/ 2004-07-22 18:48:34 +1200
\ James Doherty:
> I have a DRBD test cluster that I've been playing around with. I used
> 100Mb partitions for DRBD but now I'd like to play with something
> bigger. I've resized the partitions with cfdisk and booted up one of the
> machines with only /etc/init.d/drbd started (no datadisk). When I try to
> create a new file system on my newly resized drbd device I get this
> error:
> 
> database:~# mke2fs -j /dev/nb0
> mke2fs 1.27 (8-Mar-2002)
> /dev/nb0: Read-only file system while setting up superblock
> 
> Only one machine is running. How can I create a new filesystem on this
> device?

you make it Primary first ?

"To access the drbd, it has to be in Primary state."

  :-/

	Lars Ellenberg



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