[Ocfs-users] Could not get a raw device slot for disk access. Please free up some devices.

[sundar mahadevan]

Thanks for your reply. I find the following in the website:

Red Hat 	       2008.08.18        OCFS2 packages for various Red Hat
distributions
Source Files    2008.08.18 	       Source files for OCFS2

and under sources files i see v1.0 through v1.4

I'm running opensuse 10.3 . Can i use the one under RHEL5 or is there
anything i need to do with the source files for opensuse 10.3. Thanks
in advance.

On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran at oracle.com> wrote:
> Use ocfs2.
>
> ocfs (release 1) was for older 2.4 kernels.
>
> sundar mahadevan wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> I'm setting up ocfs on opensuse 10.3 with kernel 2.6.22.5-31 .
>> Appreciate if you could guide on the solution to this error.
>>
>> I have a secondary hard disk (80G)
>>
>> created raw paritions
>> primary /dev/sdb1 - 12G
>> extended /dev/sdb2 - 12G comprising of /dev/sdb5 - 4G /dev/sdb6 - 3G
>> /dev/sdb7 - 5G
>>
>> The error is as follows:
>> Could not get a raw device slot for disk access. Please free up some
>> devices.
>> Error: Error opening /dev/rawctl
>> No such file or directory, bindraw.c 63
>>
>> Since there was mention of /dev/rawctl, i tried the following too:
>>
>> # mkdir /dev/raw
>> cd /dev/raw
>> mknod raw5 c 162 5
>> modprobe raw
>> raw /dev/raw/raw5 /dev/sdb5
>>
>> Even after the above commands, when i try to run ocfstool, i get the same
>> error.
>>
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