On 3/10/08, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hce wrote: > > On 3/10/08, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 05:32:25PM +1100, hce wrote: > >> > I am partitioning and formating an external HDD. I made a stupid > >> > mistake, I called "mkfs.ext3 /dev/md0" before calling "fdisk > >> > /dev/md0". Now it seems that the process stopped at following last > >> > line "Writing inode tables: 14/1864": > >> > >> > >> /dev/md0 would be the first raid array. You have an external drive as > >> part of a raid array? I'm not saying that its not useful, I'm just > >> clarifying. > > > > Yes. > > > >> Without running fdisk to create a partition, you've attempted to write a > >> filesystem on the whole device. There shouldn't be a problem with this > >> so I don't know what the problem is. > > > > The process was freezed at "Writing inode tables: ...", I was afaid to > > cause an encosure and external HDD damange if I kill the process. I > > waited for 5 hours, the format process was still stuck at the last > > line, I have no choice but kill the process before going to sleep. I > > could not event kill the process, and could not event turn my PC off, > > the whole system was stuck. I had to physically switched the PC power > > off. It was a mess. > > > > Anyway, now I am restarting the fdisk and mkfs.ext3. I made only one > > partition for the whole 250 G, that the command "mkfs.ext3 /dev/md0" > > once again stuck at last line of "Writing inode tables: ...". I can > > only thought of following problems: > > > > (a) The partition of 250 G is too big, the debian system or encolusre > > or HDD is not eable to do a format on 250 G. Is it correct? If so, > > what is the largest the parttion I can make in Debian 4.0 system? > > > > (b) The enclusure or HDD is not functional properly? > > > > (c) My command to partition and format is not correct? > > > > Thanks Doug. > > > > > > > 250G partition should not be a problem at all with ext3, depending on > architecture, ext3 can go as high as 32T. It seems as though you might > have some hardware issues though. Have you tested each disk in your > raid separately?
No. Did you mean I should take the HDD from an enclusure and install it to a linux box for testing? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
