Re: problem creating a new filesystem with vxfs

From: Rob den Braber (r.denbraber_at_sfbgroep.nl)
Date: 06/17/04 

Date: 16 Jun 2004 23:06:29 -0700

Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote in message news:<40cedf9a$0$844$a344fe98@news.wanadoo.nl>...
> 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.

Frank,

Thanks for the answer. The executable indeed was corrupt. I restored
the executable from the backup and everything worked fine.

Rob

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