[Gluster-users] Quick start guide

Thiago da Silva thiago at redhat.com
Tue Dec 17 21:34:42 UTC 2013


I think the instructions there is referring to a separate disk partition
(sdb1). If you don't have one, you can create a loopback storage device.
Example:
truncate -s 5GB /srv/gluster-disk
mkfs.xfs -i size=512 /srv/gluster-disk

On Tue, 2013-12-17 at 14:22 -0700, Knut Moe wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am trying to follow the instructions from the Quick Start guide, but
> I am running into problems when issuing the following command:
> 
> mkfs.xfs -i size=512 /dev/sdb1
> 
> /dev/sdb1: No such file or directory
> 
> If I create the sdb1 folder  in the /dev folder I get the following
> error when issuing the mkfs.xfs command
> 
> mkfs.xfs: cannot open /dev/sdb1: Is a directory
> 
> Any assistance would be most helpful.
> 
> Thanks,
> Kurt
> 
> 
> 
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