[Lustre-discuss] Reclaiming ext3 reserved space failed

[Timh Bergström]

2008/6/27 Kalpak Shah <Kalpak.Shah at sun.com>:
> On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 12:23 +0200, Timh Bergström wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Im trying to reclaim the 5% space reserved for root from my osts,
>> which the manual says I should be able to do with tune2fs. So I
>> downloaded the latest version, tune2fs 1.40.11 (17-June-2008) and im
>> trying to run as stated in the manual $tune2fs -m 1 /dev/sdXY.
>>
>> This gives me :
>> tune2fs: Filesystem has unsupported feature(s) while trying to open /dev/sda1
>> Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock.
>>
>> Is there any special patches i need to apply or is there another
>> version of e2fsprogs i should download?
>>
>
> The upstream e2fsprogs will not always work with Lustre filesystems. You
> need a Lustre patched e2fsprogs available at:
>
> http://downloads.lustre.org/public/tools/e2fsprogs/1.40.7.sun3/

Combined with e2fsprogs 1.40.7
(http://mesh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs-1.40.7.tar.gz)
from sourceforge and e2fslibs-dev (from apt for debian etch),
configured with "--disable-lfsck" it now works as I wanted.

>
> Thanks,
No, thank you!

> Kalpak
>
>> It's quite annoying to loose close to 5TB just because of this. :-)
>>
>
>

Will there be a patchrelease for 1.40.11 in the near future?

-- 
Timh Bergström
System Administrator
Diino AB - www.diino.com
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