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1. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi All,
i am getting below error while executing mkfs after creating a new partition in linux
/dev/sda2 is apparently in use by the system ; will not make a filesystem here.
Anyone having any idea , how to solve this problem
thanks (2 Replies)
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2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi i am looking for some help with a question relating to the creation of the ext3 file system.
"Why is it good practice not to have a file system mounted whilst you try to create it?"
I have searched google but not had any luck in finding out what the actual dangers are of creating a file... (1 Reply)
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3. Solaris
On a RAID-5 solaris 9 server, we replaced a bad disk.
Upon boot up, a mount point failed:
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unusable and the parity is stale
With Sun tech support, we tried vxvol start and vxvol resync, but it remained... (3 Replies)
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4. Solaris
Hi All,
While creating the ufs file system with newfs - i where can I see the change, I mean if the density of inode has been increased where I can see it.
I tried with fstyp –v <slice> however not sure as where to look for the information.
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5. Solaris
Hi,
can someone please help me create a newfs on my unix server ?
thankyou
venhart (7 Replies)
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6. Solaris
what do you make of this ??
all I want to do is newfs a slice of disk.....
# uname -a
SunOS myhost 5.10 Generic_120011-14 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V240
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Copyright 2007 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All... (4 Replies)
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
What is the correct mkfs syntax to create mirrored disk files systems? I need to make the file system 20gb. For example:
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size not specified
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8. AIX
I was wondering why the mkfs command would be defaulted to allocate a minimum of 4096K of space to each file. :confused: (0 Replies)
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I am very interested in filesystems. creating filesystems on my database is almost a function that I apply routinely.. . but recently I have been reading up on filesystems and creating filesystem in The Rute Tutorial and Expo by paul sheer.. and he mentions the use of mkfs and mke2fs as a means... (4 Replies)
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10. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Looking for a good online primer/intro to creating a new file system, mounting, and eventually using NFS. Do you use newfs then mount or mount then newfs, how do you work with a new partition to create a new file system.... it's all a bit confusing.
The man pages are a little too verbose and... (1 Reply)
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