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

[Justin Conover]

On 5/29/05, Justin Conover <justin.conover at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
> 


Well, it looks like the problem is between mkfs and selinux.  The box
that works is set to

# sestatus
SELinux status:                 disabled


While the one that doesn't work is running selinux, so is this a bug,
can anyone else mkfs on selinux=1 box's?  I haven't run into this
before and I know I have other box's running selinux that i've created
new fs on.