[Linux-cluster] gfs2_grow does not work

[Abraham Alawi]

I used gfs2_grow before but never experienced this error. Probably it's /tmp related issue, got the right permission (1777) + does it have enough space? strace could be of great help as well. 

Good luck

On 4/01/2010, at 9:25 PM, Diamond Li wrote:

> could someone kindly help me to get through?
> 
> thanks in advance!
> 
> On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Diamond Li <diamondiona at gmail.com> wrote:
>> from system log, I can see the erorr message:
>> 
>> Dec 31 15:04:56 wplccdlvm446 kernel: GFS2: gfs2 mount does not exist
>> 
>> but I have mounted gfs2 file system under /gfs folder and I can do
>> operations such as mkdir, rm, successfully.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Diamond Li <diamondiona at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> I am trying to grow a gfs2 file system, unfortunately  it does not work.
>>> 
>>> anyone has similar issues or I always have bad luck?
>>> 
>>> [root at wplccdlvm446 gfs]# mount
>>> 
>>> /dev/mapper/vg100-lvol0 on /gfs type gfs2 (rw,hostdata=jid=0:id=131074:first=1)
>>> 
>>> [root at wplccdlvm446 gfs]# gfs2_grow -v /gfs
>>> Initializing lists...
>>> gfs2_grow: Couldn't mount /tmp/.gfs2meta : Invalid argument
>>> 
>>> [root at wplccdlvm446 gfs]# ls -a /tmp/.gfs2meta/
>>> .  ..
>>> 
>>> 
>>> [root at wplccdlvm446 gfs]# uname -r
>>> 2.6.18-164.el5
>>> 
>>> [root at wplccdlvm446 gfs]# cat /etc/redhat-release
>>> Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.4 (Tikanga)
>>> 
>> 
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Abraham Alawi

Unix/Linux Systems Administrator
Science IT
University of Auckland
e: a.alawi at auckland.ac.nz
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