Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 01:20:47PM +0100, Michael Turner wrote: > Hello, I am new to DRBD and I tried to configure and run DRBD 8.2.7 on my system, but it didn't really work. > When I try to create the metadata: drbdadm create-md drbd-resource-0, i get this error: > > ----- > > md_offset 1028059136 > al_offset 1028026368 > bm_offset 1027993600 > > Found ext3 filesystem which uses 22025040 kB > current configuration leaves usable 1003900 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/md1 internal create-md' terminated with exit code 40 > drbdadm create-md drbd-resource-0: exited with code 40 > ----------------------------------------- > > I tried different kinds of configurations in the drbd.conf. But everytime I received the same error. > Does anyone know how to fix this problem? the message is plain english. read it. then guess what your options are. -- : Lars Ellenberg : LINBIT | Your Way to High Availability : DRBD/HA support and consulting http://www.linbit.com DRBD® and LINBIT® are registered trademarks of LINBIT, Austria. __ please don't Cc me, but send to list -- I'm subscribed