Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
I dont understand what does "Destroy the FS" means I've tried to repartition the device using fdisk and it doesn't work what am I missing ? Best regards, Ziv Gabel Support engineer phone: + (972) 4 8508000 X 130 Cell: + (972) 54 4528944 Email: ziv at mailvision.com Mailvision Ltd Papp Tama's wrote: > Ziv Gabel wrote: >> When trying to do create-md as shown in the manual I get: >> >> [root at devsipbxlmailvision ~]# drbdadm create-md r0 >> v08 Magic number not found >> md_offset 18203176960 >> al_offset 18203144192 >> bm_offset 18202587136 >> >> Found ext2 filesystem which uses 17776544 kB >> current configuration leaves usable 17775964 kB >> >> Device size would be truncated, which >> would corrupt data and result in >> 'access beyond end of device' errors. >> You need to either >> * use external meta data (recommended) >> * shrink that filesystem first >> * zero out the device (destroy the filesystem) >> Operation refused. >> >> Command 'drbdmeta /dev/drbd0 v08 /dev/cciss/c0d1p1 internal >> create-md' terminated with exit code 40 >> drbdadm aborting >> >> >> what should I do ? >> > Hi! > > Destroy the FS on the device with dd, and you can make it. > > tamas >