I'm having problem in formatting the newly added hard drive to my Ubuntu 64 bit server, is there any explanation why I got stuck to this error ?
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root@isuzu:~# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 21.5 GB, 21474836480 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2610 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
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I would like to format my current NTFS drive to EXT4. I've searched and found there are two commands to do this, mkfs or mke2fs.
What are the proper steps to do format an NTFS to EXT4 ?
If you recommend EXT3 over 4,
i had an ntfs partition..i formatted it to ext4 with gparted..w i cant write any files to it..i think because gparted executed with root previliges so it has now made root the owner of the drive.
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:~> cat /etc/fstab | grep sde
:~> cat /etc/mtab | grep sde
/dev/sde1 /media/EMTEC ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
:~>
There's no fstab entry, as it should be, and there is a mtab entry corresponding to the pen-drive, /sde1. However the /media/EMTEC as created (by udev, I suppose) is owned by root, I can't write to it. But if I change (as root) the /etc/EMTEC folder permissions so it belongs to the regular user, i can (obviously) write to it *and* it stays so *between* remounts. Haven't tried a reboot yet. What I'm not sure is if ordered journaling is OK for a pen-drive - or any kind of journaling, for that matter. Or will this significantly decrease flash memory life? Also, the fstab options set in Yast appear to be remembered by whatever creates mtab, as well as /media/EMTEC permissions. Is that so? Where are these settings kept? How does this work?
I'm trying to install SL6 to a pair of 2TB harddisks in a RAID 1 array. The problem is that when the "Formatting" progress window that says "Creating ext4 filesystem on /dev/mapper/pdc_eahgdeafbgp1" comes up it appears to eventually freeze. It's been like that for 6 hours without the progress bar moving at least. I have another identical system that I booted up using the gparted live cd to see if I could get any more information using that. I first created a 500MB ext4 partition and mkfs.ext4 ran almost instantly. I then tried 5GB and it seemed to take maybe about a second or two and worked fine. I then jumped up to 500GB and it's been running for about 5 hours now. I'm pretty sure that I remember the creation of an ext4 filesystem occuring extremely fast even for very large partitions, but this is the first time I've played with RAID.
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* ext4 partition accessible by root only.
* after entering my pass-phrase I get
Code: /dev/mapper/udisks-luks-uuid-***** uid1000 is mounted What I'm asking for is a way to create the ext4 file system without being attached to some UID and to be accessible by any user.
I'm trying to format an external hard disk under Ubuntu 10.04. All starts well, but eventually I get the message:
Error formatting volume
Error creating file system: helper exited with exit code 1:
Error calling fsync(2) on /dev/sdb1: Input/output error
I tried to format my harddisk (160 GB) with the following command
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda
After some 3 hours, following error came up:
dd: writing to '/dev/sda' : No space left on device
312581809+0 records in
312581808+0 records out
160041885696 bytes (160 GB) copied, 10708.3 s, 14.9 MB/s
i have a dell server. its a couple of years old and has a perc 4 raid controller in it. When i do an install it shows the drives configured in the raid 5 configuration. i select the disk and do an auto partition. It goes for about 10min then errors with "error formatting drive volgoup00 the error is serious occurred press enter to reboot" or something like that can remember all the words. It doesn't give any info about the error.
i get the same error on centOs 5.5 and Ubuntu server 10.10
There is a firmware update for the raid controller that i could apply but dell's site was not letting me download it yesterday. Other than that I am not sure what to do. I could try an older version of CentOS 5.4 but i figure someone might tell me how to fix this so i can run the newest version.
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View 2 Replies View RelatedI have new external usb drive which I'm trying to format to NTFS so I can also use in in windows. I've set it up using fdisk
Disk /dev/sdd: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x604a2a7d
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdd1 1 60801 488384001 7 HPFS/NTFS
And tried formatting using
mkfs -t ntfs /dev/sdd1
However I get the following error
Cluster size has been automatically set to 4096 bytes.
Initializing device with zeroes: 100% - Done.
Creating NTFS volume structures.
Error writing to /dev/sdd1: Input/output error.
Error writing non-resident attribute value.
add_attr_sd failed: Input/output error
Couldn't create root directory: Input/output error
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ata1.00 : exception Emask 0x0 Sact 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
ata1.00 : BMDMA stat 0x25
ata1.00 : cmd c8/00:00:50:5a:34/00:00:00:00:00/e4 tag 0 dma 131072 1n
res 51/40:7f:d1:5a:34//00:00:00:00:00/e4 Emask 0x9 (media error)
ata1.00 : status : { DRDY ERR }
ata1.00 : err : { UNC }
end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 70539985 JBD : Failed to read block at offset 5884 EXT4-fs(sda): error loading journal mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda8, codepage or helper program, or other error In some case useful info is found in syslog-ty dmesg | tail or so
I am experiencing problems with an ext4 file system.
My setup: I have a server with a RAID 0 drive array for the OS. I have a promise vtrak running RAID 6 on twelve drives. The server is using the vtrak virtual drive for things like /home, /var/ftp/pub and the like. I formatted the vtrak drive using 'mkfs.ext4 -v -m 1 -E stride=16,stripe-width=160 /dev/sda'
My problem: At first, the vtrak drive seemed to work fine. I was primarily copying things to the drive migrating data from another server. After many GBs of data that seemingly successfully were done being transferred, I started a scp from a remote host to transfer even more data. The remote host ended up being rebooted before the scp was completed. After that, I was 'ls'ing around to see what was successful and was getting EXT4-fs errors. I then unmounted the vtrak drive and ran an 'fsck -y /dev/sda' which took over 3 hours to run. I then remounted it and 'ls'ed around and one of the areas caused the system to again throw EXT4-fs errors. I then booted the system and ran memtest through one complete pass and it found no memory problems. I tried again fsck'd the drive and again found problems while 'ls'ing.
Since the data is not yet critical, I could reformat the drive and start again; however, I am really questioning what went wrong and am worried that the reformat approach will just result in the same outcome.
What is the best way for me to fix the drive?
Is ext4 a stable solution for a file server?
Did I setup the ext4 options (stride, stripe-width) properly?
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root@~je:/# mount -o ro -t ext4 /dev/loop0 /mnt
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
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yum install e4fsprogs
tune2fs -O extents,uninit_bg,dir_index /dev/md2
nano /etc/fstab # I indicated here that my /dev/md2 is of ext4
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