[Re: drives]

[Marcel Kunath]

Well mkreiserfs doesn't error but when I try to mount it it errors. But only
when using reiser. It's this drive:
http://www.wdc.com/products/drives/wd450aa.html

WDC uses the base 10 drive size:
http://www.wdc.com/products/drives/specs/wd450aas.html#physical

Here is what the ext2 way says:

mke2fs /dev/hdb
block size = 4096 (log 2)

5505024 inodes
10991358 blocks
549567 blocks reserved for super user

336 block groups
32768 blocks per group


df after mounting:

1-kblocks   Used   Avail
43274424    20     41076136

Hm 336 * 32768 = 11010048 and not 10991358

45020 MB = 45020000000 bytes = 43 964 843.75 KB(log 2)

KB/4 = blocks = 10 991 210.9375

How many blocks should I specify? 11 010 048, 10 991 358, 10 991 210, or 10 991
211?

mk

> > "Marcel
Kunath" <kunathma@pilot.msu.edu> wrote: >
> [trying to mkreiserfs on an unpartitioned /dev/hdb]
> > Well this works for ext2 but I can't do it with reiserfs. mkreiserfs
> > still errors on the device.
>
> Which version of mkreiserfs are you using?  At which point does it fail?
> mkreiserfs has a fair number of printf() calls in it, which could help.
> It may not handle an entire disk correctly, or you may need to pass it the
> (usually optional) block-count parameter (blocks = disk's capacity in K /
> 4), or you may have found a bug in mkreiserfs.
>
> As I see it, you have 2 options:
>
> A) Make one big partition covering the entire disk, mkreiserfs the
> partition and have things working quickly.  Trouble is, you'll be ignorant
> of what's really going on here.
>
> B) Find out what's really going on here and try to fix it.  This may
> involve more work than you'd like, and digging around in reiserfs-utils
> code and/or stracing will be required.  OTOH, submitting a patch and
> having it accepted by the reiserfs team would be nifty.
>
>
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