Re: problem creating a new filesystem with vxfs

From: Frank Slootweg (this_at_ddress.is.invalid)
Date: 06/15/04 

Date: 15 Jun 2004 11:38:02 GMT

Rob den Braber <r.denbraber@sfbgroep.nl> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm new to HP-UX and we currently have a rx2600 Itanium with HP-UX 11i
> v2 running here.
>
> When I try to make a new filesystem I receive the following error:
>
> # newfs -F vxfs /dev/vg01/rlvol1
> mkfs: Unable to execute vxfs-specific module for the command mkfs
> /sbin/fs/vxfs/mkfs: Exec format error

  It looks like this executable is corrupt, so start with things like

# file /sbin/fs/vxfs/mkfs

and work from there. The file(1) command should give similar results as
for other executables, so try some other sysadmin executables and
compare the output.