Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
I found the problem, saw parition table [root at pr0021 ~]# fdisk -l Disk /dev/hda: 8447 MB, 8447459328 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1027 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux /dev/hda2 14 961 7614810 83 Linux /dev/hda3 962 1026 522112+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hda4 1027 1027 8032+ 83 Linux /dev/hda4 is not in listed in /dev directory [root at pr0021 ~]# ls -l /dev/hda* brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 0 Jun 24 21:07 /dev/hda brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 1 Jun 24 21:07 /dev/hda1 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 2 Jun 24 21:07 /dev/hda2 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 3 Jun 24 21:07 /dev/hda3 Problem is solved. sorry for such a posting. on this test machine, decreased the size of swap, created fourth partition. and created drbd meta disk. used commands: swapoff /dev/hda3 used fdisk and decreased swap partition, created /dev/hda4. partprobe for partition table update. then mkswap /dev/hda3 swapon /dev/hda3 it is a test machine. thanks and regards anugunj "anuj singh" On 6/25/07, Anuj Singh <anujhere at gmail.com> wrote: > hi, > kernel version=2.6.9-55.4.EL > drbd-8.0.3 > [root at pr0021 ~]# drbdadm create-md r0 > v08 Magic number not found > v07 Magic number not found > About to create a new drbd meta data block > on /dev/hda4. > > ==> This might destroy existing data! <== > > Do you want to proceed? > [need to type 'yes' to confirm] yes > > lseek64() failed: Invalid argument > Command 'drbdmeta /dev/drbd0 v08 /dev/hda4 internal create-md' > terminated with exit code 20 > > how to fix this error. i formatted /dev/hda4 again.. problem is same. > thanks and regards/ > anugun anuj >