[Lustre-discuss] Reclaiming ext3 reserved space failed

Kalpak Shah Kalpak.Shah at Sun.COM
Fri Jun 27 06:08:35 PDT 2008


On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 13:56 +0200, Timh Bergström wrote:
> 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.
> 
> >
> Will there be a patchrelease for 1.40.11 in the near future?

Yes, we will release a Lustre e2fsprogs based on version 1.40.11 in the
next 2-3 weeks.

Thanks,
Kalpak





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