Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On Tuesday 25 March 2008 20:15:57 Szasz Tamas wrote: > Hi list, > > I installed drbd-8.2.5 from source on a running system. I have moved all > from the /var partition to a created /var directory. I want to use this > free partition(/var) to drbd. When I want to start the drbd, I get this > error: # drbdadm create-md data > v08 Magic number not found > md_offset 67225174016 > al_offset 67225141248 > bm_offset 67223089152 > > Found ext3 filesystem which uses 66589392 kB > current configuration leaves usable 65647548 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. Autoresponder says: - you created your filesystem before you created your DRBD resource, or - you created your filesystem on your backing device, rather than your DRBD device, - neither of which is a problem by itself - except you need to enlarge the device, shrink the filesystem, or place the metadata somewhere else. Cheers, Florian -- : Florian G. Haas : LINBIT Information Technologies GmbH : Vivenotgasse 48, A-1120 Vienna, Austria When replying, there is no need to CC my personal address. I monitor the list on a daily basis. Thank you.