Hi,
mkfs.btrfs v0.20-rc1, as provided in the excellent Parted Magic tool,
latest version dated 2013/02/28, is broken :
When trying to mkfs.btrfs - even on newly made, FS-free partition, it
always spits an error that it cannot check partition mount status and fails.
There has always been such an
On 3/7/13 6:11 AM, Swâmi Petaramesh wrote:
Hi,
mkfs.btrfs v0.20-rc1, as provided in the excellent Parted Magic tool,
latest version dated 2013/02/28, is broken :
Unfortunately v0.20-rc1 spans months of development, since btrfs-progs
has no consistent release or versioning activity.
When
On 03/07/2013 08:11 PM, Swâmi Petaramesh wrote:
Hi,
mkfs.btrfs v0.20-rc1, as provided in the excellent Parted Magic tool,
latest version dated 2013/02/28, is broken :
When trying to mkfs.btrfs - even on newly made, FS-free partition, it
always spits an error that it cannot check partition
Le 07/03/2013 14:37, Eric Sandeen a écrit :
What error messages does it emit, anything helpful?
root@partedmagic:~# file -s /dev/sda5
/dev/sda5: data
root@partedmagic:~# mkfs.btrfs /dev/sda5
WARNING! - Btrfs v0.20-rc1 IS EXPERIMENTAL
WARNING! - see http://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org before using
On 3/7/13 9:09 AM, Swâmi Petaramesh wrote:
Le 07/03/2013 14:37, Eric Sandeen a écrit :
What error messages does it emit, anything helpful?
root@partedmagic:~# file -s /dev/sda5
/dev/sda5: data
root@partedmagic:~# mkfs.btrfs /dev/sda5
WARNING! - Btrfs v0.20-rc1 IS EXPERIMENTAL
Le 07/03/2013 16:13, Eric Sandeen a écrit :
# strace -o tracefile.txt mkfs.btrfs /dev/sda5 tracefile.txt will
contain all syscalls made by the binary and their results, which might
give us a clue what's gone wrong. -Eric
Here it goes !
execve(/sbin/mkfs.btrfs, [mkfs.btrfs, /dev/sda5], [/* 28
On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 08:21:51AM -0700, Swâmi Petaramesh wrote:
Le 07/03/2013 16:13, Eric Sandeen a écrit :
# strace -o tracefile.txt mkfs.btrfs /dev/sda5 tracefile.txt will
contain all syscalls made by the binary and their results, which might
give us a clue what's gone wrong. -Eric
Le 07/03/2013 16:35, Chris Mason a écrit :
Could you please send the contents of /proc/mounts
Here it goes !
(Last line is the USB key I dropped in just for taking a copy of
/proc/mounts ; it didn't exist at the time the errors occured...)
rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Swâmi Petaramesh sw...@petaramesh.org wrote:
lstat64(/sqfs_disk, 0xbff57820) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
mkfs.btrfs tries to lookup loop devices by their filenames and fails
if any loop device file is missing.
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Le 07/03/2013 19:06, Jérôme Poulin a écrit :
mkfs.btrfs tries to lookup loop devices by their filenames and fails
if any loop device file is missing.
Hmm Why would mkfs.btrfs want to lookup anything else but the device
we're trying to format, to check if it's mounted or not ?
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On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Swâmi Petaramesh sw...@petaramesh.org wrote:
Le 07/03/2013 19:06, Jérôme Poulin a écrit :
mkfs.btrfs tries to lookup loop devices by their filenames and fails
if any loop device file is missing.
Hmm Why would mkfs.btrfs want to lookup anything else but the
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