Bug 139420
| Summary: | mkfs.* files don't all work on new Logical Volumes | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | Reporter: | Jim Parsons <jparsons> |
| Component: | device-mapper | Assignee: | Alasdair Kergon <agk> |
| Status: | CLOSED NEXTRELEASE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 4.0 | CC: | mbroz |
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| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2006-08-03 18:55:40 UTC | Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Blocks: | 143501 | ||
So we probably ought to supply a fake geometry. An option is now available upstream to specify what drive geometry you want a given dm device to return: dmsetup setgeometry. If no geometry was supplied zeros are returned, as per the man page. In Fedora/RHEL5 but it has not been backported to RHEL4. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.2) Gecko/20040301 Description of problem: When making VFAT or MSDOS or JFS or REISER or XFS Filesystems on a system that supports these types, the mkfs app returns an error stating that it does not know the Drive Geometry. lvmguy confirmed this. I know that these FS types are not supported in RHEL3, but I am unable to find the proper OS version in the bugzilla create form :-( Hoping this will at least keep track of this issue. BTW, ext3 and ext2 both work fine. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.create LV 2.try and create one of the FS's above 3. Additional info: