Questions tagged [mkfs]

I have a requirement to use more inodes than normally available on most file systems. Therefore, I create and mount a ext4 filesystem with a custom inode setting: dd if=/dev/zero of=loop0.img bs=1MB count=5000 losetup --find --show…

we doing mkfs on the disk sda as the following mkfs.ext4 -j -m 0 /dev/sda -F mke2fs 1.42.9 (28-Dec-2013) Warning: could not erase sector 2: Attempt to write block to filesystem resulted in short write Filesystem label= OS type: Linux Block…

In my centos7 when I add and partition a new disk to the machine and try to make files system on top of it , I get this annoying error message /dev/sdb is apparently in use by the system; will not make a filesystem here The point is that the disk…