[Gluster-users] Quick start guide

[Knut Moe]

Thanks, Thiago, the advice on truncation seems to work great.


On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Thiago da Silva <thiago at redhat.com> wrote:

>  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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