Dear Sun Managers,
Thanks again for the speedy and very helpful responses. Thanks to:
Arthur Darren Dunham; Russ Poffenberger ; Ray Saddler ; Charlie
Mengler; Leif Ericksen; Brion Leary; Thomas Carter; David H. Brierley
Amongst the suggestions werre:
1. overlapping cyclinder (no)
2. greater than 4GB filesystem (never a problem before)
3. format.dat for the 9GB
4. But the correct answer is that I had it off cyclinder. I guess I
realized this but I *kept trying* various combinations. Still Russ
Poffenberger even excerpted the mkfs_ufs man page which I guess I
overlooked (sorry folks)!
Here are some excerpts that summarize the problem and solution better
than I could.
David Brierley: "This message usually means that the partition size is
just slightly larger than a multiple of 16. I notice that the output
of 'newfs' shows a size of 3136 cylinders. Does the output of the
format command agree with that? I suspect that the format command
will show that the partition size is 3137 cylinders and that is what
is causing your error."
Russ Poffenberger: "The mkfs_ufs man page explains the error..
Warning: inode blocks/cyl group (grp) >= data blocks (num) in
User request for inodes/byte (with the nbpi keyword)
and the disk geometry results in a situation in which
the last truncated cylinder group can not contain the
correct number of data blocks; some disk space is
wasted."
Arthur Darren Dunham: "To eliminate it, go back into 'format' and only
allocate partitions on whole cylinders."
thank all of you for your help
Adam Singer
ORIGNAL POST:
> Hello,
>
> I am having some problems newfs'ing a 9GB disk on a Sun Ultra60
> running fully patched Solaris 2.6. I had had 9GB disks under
> DiskSuite with a couple of metadevices, but I had wanted to partition
> this disk just as a ufs filesystem. One of the slices was to be 5GB.
> Well everytime I ran newfs, no matter how I set the # of sectors from
> within format, I always got the following error:
>
> >Warning: inode blocks/cyl group (377) >= data blocks (224) in last
> > cylinder group. This implies 3590 sector(s) cannot be allocated.
>
> I have never seen this error before and had hoped someone could
> explain it to me, i.e. what am I doing wrong?
>
> Below I excerpted a little more from two newfs tries in case the
> additional info helps someone sort out what is going wrong.
>
> Any clues or pointers to reference materials that actually explain
> what is going on are greatly appreciated.
>
> thanks,
>
> Adam
email: regnis@worldnet.att.net
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