[DRBD-user] Error in formatting DRBD Disk

Salman Riaz salmanriaz321 at gmail.com
Thu Feb 7 11:50:01 CET 2013

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Thank you very much Felix. I'll format it and then implement pacemaker...

Best Regards,

Salman Riaz Siddiqui.


On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Felix Frank <ff at mpexnet.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 02/07/2013 05:04 AM, Salman Riaz wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have successfully deployed the tertiary stacked node.
> >
> > [root at n1 ~]# cat /proc/drbd
> > version: 8.3.13 (api:88/proto:86-96)
> > GIT-hash: 83ca112086600faacab2f157bc5a9324f7bd7f77 build by
> > mockbuild at builder10.centos.org <mailto:mockbuild at builder10.centos.org>,
> > 2012-05-07 11:56:48
> >  0: cs:Connected ro:Primary/Secondary ds:UpToDate/UpToDate C r-----
> >     ns:4542736 nr:0 dw:3490136 dr:1314783 al:572 bm:66 lo:0 pe:0 ua:0
> > ap:0 ep:1 wo:n oos:0
> >
> > 10: cs:Connected ro:Primary/Secondary ds:UpToDate/UpToDate A r-----
> >     ns:2147221400 nr:0 dw:0 dr:2147221400 al:0 bm:259233 lo:0 pe:0 ua:0
> > ap:0 ep:1 wo:b oos:0
> >
> >
> > Now I am formatting my DRBD Disk but get this error:
> >
> > [root at n1 ~]# mkfs.ext3 /dev/drbd0
> > mke2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006)
> > /dev/drbd0 is apparently in use by the system; will not make a
> > filesystem here!
> >
> > Anyone please guide me in this regard
>
> "I'm glad you asked"
>
> ...because now that you got the stacking going, you *cannot* ever use
> drbd0 again! It's your backing device now, please keep that in mind.
> It's now off limits in the same way you cannot use the disk partition
> underneath drbd.
>
> What you need to do is create an fs on and mount drbd10.
>
> Cheers,
> Felix
>
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