[CentOS] formatting large volume

Wed Oct 15 18:42:56 UTC 2008
Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com>

On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 14:34 -0400, Stephen Harris wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:13:08AM -0700, Craig White wrote:
> > I did run into a snag that I don't fully understand while trying to make
> > the filesystem though...
> > 
> > # mke2fs -v -j -l 2TbVol /dev/VolGroup10/2TbVol
> 
> Were you trying to specify a label?  If so, use the -L option, not -l
> 
> Were you trying to specify a bad block list?  Why?  I'd be VERY surprised
> if you need to do this.
> 
> So you either meant
>   mke2fs -v -j /dev/VolGroup10/2TbVol
> OR
>   mke2fs -v -j -L 2TbVol /dev/VolGroup10/2TbVol
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duh...thanks  :::blush:::

too many man pages  ;-)

Thanks

Craig