Problems with making a filesystem on my raid card

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Veldhuis93
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Problems with making a filesystem on my raid card

Post by Veldhuis93 » 2012/06/12 08:57:28

At first I did not have the problem, but since a week I'm struggling with this.

[root@stor1 ~]# mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb
mke2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006)
/dev/sdb is entire device, not just one partition!
Proceed anyway? (y,n) y
Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=4096 (log=2)
Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
156254208 inodes, 312499712 blocks
15624985 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=0
Maximum filesystem blocks=4294967296
9537 block groups
32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
16384 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208,
4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000, 23887872, 71663616, 78675968,
102400000, 214990848

Writing inode tables: done
Creating journal (32768 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done

This filesystem will be automatically checked every 33 mounts or
180 days, whichever comes first. Use tune2fs -c or -i to override.
[root@stor1 ~]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 14 60801 488279610 8e Linux LVM

Disk /dev/sdb: 1279.9 GB, 1279998820352 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 1220702 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes

Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table

As you can see, the os does it job and partitions the disk, but directly when i check it, it's like nothing happened.

Help would be very appreciated

Regards,

gerald_clark
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Location: Northern Illinois, USA

Problems with making a filesystem on my raid card

Post by gerald_clark » 2012/06/12 13:17:10

Welcome to CentOS.
New users need to read
http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewforum.php?forum=47

Start by reading the installation guide.
http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/5.2/Installation_Guide/
Then look over the deployment guide.

You made your filesystem on the bare drive, destroying any partitioning.

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