Not sure if my shell is the problem here, but I need this explicit redirection to ignore the error output from mkdir and xfs_io, otherwise the test fails due to the error messages from these commands. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> diff --git a/tests/generic/256 b/tests/generic/256 index cfbf790..2db22cd 100755 --- a/tests/generic/256 +++ b/tests/generic/256 @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ _fill_fs() { # Creation of files or folders # must not be done as root or # reserved blocks will be consumed - _user_do "mkdir -p $dir &> /dev/null" + _user_do "mkdir -p $dir > /dev/null 2>&1" if [ $? -ne 0 ] ; then return 0 fi @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ _fill_fs() { while [ $file_size -ge $block_size ] do bytes_written=0 - _user_do "$XFS_IO_PROG -f -c \"pwrite 0 $file_size\" $dir/$file_count.bin &> /dev/null" + _user_do "$XFS_IO_PROG -f -c \"pwrite 0 $file_size\" $dir/$file_count.bin > /dev/null 2>&1" if [ -f $dir/$file_count.bin ] then -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe fstests" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html