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

[Sunil Mushran]

opensuse ships ocfs2. install the ocfs2-tools package
that is provided with the opensuse distribution.

sundar mahadevan wrote:
> 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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>>     
>
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