Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On Friday 14 July 2006 16:37, Lars Ellenberg wrote: > / 2006-07-14 14:37:18 +0930 > > \ Admin: > > Hi all > > > > On 2.6.17.3 amd64 (kernel and userland) + drbd 0.7.20 SVN (as of 14/July) > > when I try to configure external metadata it fails with > > > > ioctl(,SET_DISK_CONFIG,) failed: Invalid argument > > Meta device too small. > > > > until I increase the size of the partition containing the metadata to > > 134MB (I thought 128MB was what was required?) > > is it possible that you confuse (1000*1000) and (1024*1024) ? > 128 * (1024*1024) == 134217728 Looks like you are 100% correct parted docs: megabyte (1000000 bytes) I just assumed that a partitioning tool would be more accurate (I couldn't check using fdisk or cfdisk because they don't understand gpt labels) Thanks for the help Admin