Mount and ext3 issues with Busybox 1.2.2.1

[Denis Vlasenko]

On Thursday 16 November 2006 00:59, Jim Gifford wrote:
> What I've done is created a nfs boot version of a build, to fdisk, 
> format, and install drives. When I try to do this, I get the following 
> errors:
> Could not determine if /dev/hda1 is mounted
> mkfs.ext3: Could not create journal
> failed: Block device required
> 
> Here's are all the details.
> ls /dev/hda1 -lh
> brw-rw----    1 root     root       3,   1 Nov 15 16:22 /dev/hda1
> / $ mkfs.ext3 /dev/hda1
> mke2fs 1.38 (30-Jun-2005)
> mkfs.ext3: Could not determine if /dev/hda1 is mounted
> Filesystem label=
> OS type: Linux
> Block size=4096 (log=2)
> Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
> 1221600 inodes, 2441494 blocks
> 122074 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
> First data block=0
> 75 block groups
> 32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
> 16288 inodes per group
> Superblock backups stored on blocks:
>         32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632
> 
> Writing inode tables: done
> Creating journal (32768 blocks): mkfs.ext3: Could not create journal

Maybe the device is too small for ext3? IOW: does creating ext2 instead work?

> mount -t ext3 /mnt/lfs /dev/hda1
> mount: Mounting /mnt/lfs on /dev/hda1 failed: Block device required

You have parameters swapped here.
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