[dm-devel] help : device-mapper ioctl cmd 9 failed: Invalid argument
Alasdair G Kergon
agk at uk.sistina.com
Mon Jul 21 07:56:01 UTC 2003
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 06:14:10PM +0530, kiran dalvi wrote:
> My machine is Redhat Linux - 8.0, kernel level 2.4.21 with properly
> applied patches for DM.
> I also have device mapper tools installed properly on my machine.
Both the latest versions from the sistina ftp site presumably?
> contents of dmsetup file
> 0 200781 linear /dev/hda7 0
> 200781 401562 linear /dev/hdb8 0
^ ^
|Start |Length [all in units of sectors of 512 bytes]
So hdb8 is exactly twice the size of hda7
and the number of sectors on hda7 is an odd number.
> I am not able to get documentation for how to setup DM , if any one knows
> where to get that please let
'man dmsetup' should cover enough for this.
Alasdair
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