mkfs.ext3: Permission denied while trying to determine filesystem size

[Justin Conover]

Can't create a  logical volume, have no problems doing it on another
rawhide box.  Plenty of space, I've done this ++++ times and for some
reason this box is just causing a problem.  "permission denied"

Could this be a dieing HD?  The box has 4x36GB scsi drives in it, in
Raid0/lvm config.


[root at trinity ~]# lvcreate -L2G -nLogVol08 VolGroup01
  Logical volume "LogVol08" created
[root at trinity ~]# mke2fs -j /dev/VolGroup01/LogVol08
mke2fs 1.37 (21-Mar-2005)
Could not stat /dev/VolGroup01/LogVol08 --- Permission denied
[root at trinity ~]# mkfs.ext3 -F -j /dev/VolGroup01/LogVol08
mke2fs 1.37 (21-Mar-2005)
mkfs.ext3: Permission denied while trying to determine filesystem size
# mkfs.ext3 -F -j /dev/mapper/VolGroup01-LogVol08
mke2fs 1.37 (21-Mar-2005)
mkfs.ext3: Permission denied while trying to determine filesystem size
]# mkfs.ext3 -F -j /dev/mapper/VolGroup01-LogVol08
mke2fs 1.37 (21-Mar-2005)
mkfs.ext3: Permission denied while trying to determine filesystem size
[root at trinity ~]# mke2fs -f /dev/mapper/VolGroup01-LogVol08
mke2fs: bad fragment size - /dev/mapper/VolGroup01-LogVol08

[root at trinity ~]# id -Z
root:system_r:unconfined_t
[root at trinity ~]# ls -la /sbin/ | grep mkfs
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root    7192 May  3 23:30 mkfs
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root root   15872 May  3 23:30 mkfs.cramfs
-rwxr-xr-x   3 root root   35888 May 10 04:17 mkfs.ext2
-rwxr-xr-x   3 root root   35888 May 10 04:17 mkfs.ext3
-rwxr-xr-x   3 root root   30180 Apr 28 09:31 mkfs.msdos
-rwxr-xr-x   3 root root   30180 Apr 28 09:31 mkfs.vfat
[root at trinity ~]# lsmod | grep ext3
ext3                  133193  8
jbd                    61785  1 ext3

[root at trinity ~]# vgdisplay
  --- Volume group ---
  VG Name               VolGroup01
  System ID
  Format                lvm2
  Metadata Areas        1
  Metadata Sequence No  12
  VG Access             read/write
  VG Status             resizable
  MAX LV                0
  Cur LV                9
  Open LV               8
  Max PV                0
  Cur PV                1
  Act PV                1
  VG Size               101.28 GB
  PE Size               32.00 MB
  Total PE              3241
  Alloc PE / Size       672 / 21.00 GB
  Free  PE / Size       2569 / 80.28 GB
  VG UUID               8A535T-TOpJ-Fzkg-BREJ-TJE7-E3Lp-nChZOg


The differences on the box that work don't work are following,

Works  (x86_64/rawhide)
# rpm -qa | grep lvm
lvm2-2.01.08-1.0   <----- WHY 2?
lvm2-2.01.08-2.1
system-config-lvm-0.9.32-1.0
# rpm -qa | grep e2fsprogs
e2fsprogs-devel-1.37-4
e2fsprogs-1.37-4.x86_64
e2fsprogs-1.37-4.i386



Doesn't work (x86/Rawhide)
# rpm -qa | grep lvm
lvm2-2.01.08-2.1
system-config-lvm-0.9.32-1.0
# rpm -qa | grep e2fsprogs
e2fsprogs-devel-1.37-4
e2fsprogs-1.37-4
Both box's are in a soft raid/lvm config,  Not sure why the i386 box
defaulted to VolGroup01 but shouldn't matter in any case.