I used gfs2_grow before but never experienced this error. Probably it's /tmp related issue, got the right permission (1777) + does it have enough space? strace could be of great help as well. Good luck On 4/01/2010, at 9:25 PM, Diamond Li wrote: > could someone kindly help me to get through? > > thanks in advance! > > On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Diamond Li <diamondiona@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> from system log, I can see the erorr message: >> >> Dec 31 15:04:56 wplccdlvm446 kernel: GFS2: gfs2 mount does not exist >> >> but I have mounted gfs2 file system under /gfs folder and I can do >> operations such as mkdir, rm, successfully. >> >> >> >> On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Diamond Li <diamondiona@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I am trying to grow a gfs2 file system, unfortunately it does not work. >>> >>> anyone has similar issues or I always have bad luck? >>> >>> [root@wplccdlvm446 gfs]# mount >>> >>> /dev/mapper/vg100-lvol0 on /gfs type gfs2 (rw,hostdata=jid=0:id=131074:first=1) >>> >>> [root@wplccdlvm446 gfs]# gfs2_grow -v /gfs >>> Initializing lists... >>> gfs2_grow: Couldn't mount /tmp/.gfs2meta : Invalid argument >>> >>> [root@wplccdlvm446 gfs]# ls -a /tmp/.gfs2meta/ >>> . .. >>> >>> >>> [root@wplccdlvm446 gfs]# uname -r >>> 2.6.18-164.el5 >>> >>> [root@wplccdlvm446 gfs]# cat /etc/redhat-release >>> Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.4 (Tikanga) >>> >> > > -- > Linux-cluster mailing list > Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' Abraham Alawi Unix/Linux Systems Administrator Science IT University of Auckland e: a.alawi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx p: +64-9-373 7599, ext#: 87572 '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster