topic mkfs error in Operating System - HP-UX

mkfs error

George Liu_4 — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 13:09:43 GMT

# newfs -F hfs /dev/rdsk/c4t1d0
mkfs (hfs): write() error in wtfs() at block 215490.
mkfs (hfs): Invalid argument

Any idea?

Re: mkfs error

Court Campbell — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 13:17:38 GMT

so you are trying to create an hfs filesystem on a non-lvm disk. what is the size of the disk?

Re: mkfs error

James R. Ferguson — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 13:19:17 GMT

Hi George:

You might want to verify the underlying disk:

# dd if=/dev/rdsk/c4t1d0 of=/dev/null bs=1024k

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: mkfs error

Court Campbell — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 13:22:09 GMT

you might also look at your syslog and dmesg to see if tey have any useful info on the situation.

Re: mkfs error

Hein van den Heuvel — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 13:22:13 GMT

Maybe the disk is bad, or HPUX has stored the wrong characteristics for it.

May first step would be 'diskinfo'

How big is the disk supposed to be and what does HPUX think about it?

Next maybe a dd to see how far you can read and/or write.

You may have to delete the device files and recreated tehm with insf

Good luck,
Hein.