Ok, I have tried harder: I have found out how the /dev/mapper directory can be created. I cannot create an ext3 partition with the partition manager. I am verbose as always, hopefully this is ok.
# modprobe dm-mod # ls /dev/mapper control # dmraid -ay # ls /dev/mapper control isw_ddeheebhbf_Volume01 isw_ddeheebhbf_Volume06 isw_ddeheebhbf_Volume0 isw_ddeheebhbf_Volume05 I wondered which device I had to use. Someone suggested to use dmraid -s: # dmraid -s *** Group superset isw_ddeheebhbf --> Active Subset name : isw_ddeheebhbf_Volume0 size : 976783872 stride : 256 type : stripe status : 0 subsets: 0 devs : 2 spares : 0 I have given a stripe size of 128 kB (default for RAID 0). Another suggestion was to use fdisk -l: # fdisk -l /dev/mapper/isw_ddeheebhbf_Volume0 Disk /dev/mapper/isw_ddeheebhbf_Volume0: 500.1 GB, 500113342464 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes d System Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/mapper/isw_ddeheebhbf_Volume0p1 * 1 19122 153597433+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/mapper/isw_ddeheebhbf_Volume0p2 * 19123 60800 334778535 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/mapper/isw_ddeheebhbf_Volume0p5 * 19123 21672 20482843+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/mapper/isw_ddeheebhbf_Volume0p6 * 21673 25497 30720000+ 7 HPFS/NTFS I double check that with parted to reduce the risk of data loss: # parted /dev/mapper/isw_ddeheebhbf_Volume0 GNU Parted 1.7.1 Using /dev/mapper/isw_ddeheebhbf_Volume0 ... (parted) print Disk /dev/mapper/isw_ddeheebhbf_Volume0: 500GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 32.3kB 157GB 157GB primary ntfs boot 2 157GB 500GB 343GB extended lba 5 157GB 178GB 21.0GB logical ntfs 6 178GB 210GB 31.5GB logical ntfs The stride size is wrong, but fdisk and parted show correct partition sizes. I move on. # exit Partition manager: manually create partitions on /dev/mapper/isw_ddeheebhbf_Volume0: logical swap 2 GB logical ext3 157.3 GB (mount option: noatime, "linux", reserved 0%) Partition disks: swap partition: ok ext3 partition: Failed to create a file system The ext3 file system creation in partition #8 of LVM VG isw_ddeheebhbf_Volume0, LV isw_ddeheebhbf_Volume0 failed. -> Shell # parted /dev/mapper/isw_ddeheebhbf_Volume0 ... 7 210GB 212GB 1999MB logical linux-swap 8 212GB 369GB 157GB logical ext2 The new partitions are there, but not mapped: # ls /dev/mapper control isw_ddeheebhbf_Volume01 isw_ddeheebhbf_Volume06 isw_ddeheebhbf_Volume0 isw_ddeheebhbf_Volume05 I had to # dmraid -an # dmraid -ay # ls /dev/mapper control isw_ddeheebhbf_Volume0 isw_ddeheebhbf_Volume01 isw_ddeheebhbf_Volume05 isw_ddeheebhbf_Volume06 isw_ddeheebhbf_Volume07 isw_ddeheebhbf_Volume08 # exit Now I try again to use the partition manager: Creating ext3 file system for / in partition #8 of LVM VG isw_ddeheebhbf_Volume0, LV isw_ddeheebhbf_Volume0... Failed to create a file system The ext3 file system creation in partition #8 of LVM VG isw_ddeheebhbf_Volume0, LV isw_ddeheebhbf_Volume0 failed. But a filesystem has been created (mount: lost+found directory). -> Shell # tune2fs -l /dev/mapper/isw_ddeheebhbf_Volume08 ... Filesystem volume name: <none> (*** set label to "linux") Last mounted on: <not available> Filesystem UUID: d65c48c9-6f01-4458-a978-c59221931e92 Filesystem magic number: 0xEF53 Filesystem revision #: 1 (dynamic) Filesystem features: filetype sparse_super Default mount options: (none) Filesystem state: clean Inode count: 19202048 Block count: 38403374 Reserved block count: 1920168 (*** set to 0% in part manager) ... Block size: 4096 Fragment size: 4096 Last mount time: Wed Dec 20 12:02:48 2006 Last write time: Wed Dec 20 12:02:53 2006 Mount count: 1 Maximum mount count: 30 ... Check interval: 0 (<none>) # tune2fs -r 0 /dev/mapper/isw_ddeheebhbf_Volume08 # tune2fs -l /dev/mapper/isw_ddeheebhbf_Volume08 Reserved block count: 0 The partition manager application does not work correctly. How can I move on with the installion? -- DMRAID stopped to work in kernels > 2.6.15 https://launchpad.net/bugs/54246 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
