On Sat, Feb 02, 2013 at 08:56:20PM +0530, Atri Sharma wrote: > Hi all, > > I am running a Fedora 17 system. I am trying to set up a new partition > of 2 GB size which has BTRFS as file system. > > When I am trying to do mkfs.btrfs on a partition, I get: > > [atri@AtriServer ~]$ mkfs.btrfs /dev/sda3 > > WARNING! - Btrfs Btrfs v0.19 IS EXPERIMENTAL > WARNING! - see http://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org before using > > check_mounted(): Could not open /dev/sda3 > error checking /dev/sda3 mount status
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