[DRBD-user] size-problem

Lars Ellenberg lars.ellenberg at linbit.com
Fri Feb 27 19:13:38 CET 2009

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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.

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