Hi Hugo, Thanks. I was having some issues with my priviledges, and sorting them out has worked.
Thanks a ton, Atri On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 9:50 PM, Hugo Mills <h...@carfax.org.uk> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 02, 2013 at 08:56:20PM +0530, Atri Sharma wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I am running a Fedora 17 system. I am trying to set up a new partition >> of 2 GB size which has BTRFS as file system. >> >> When I am trying to do mkfs.btrfs on a partition, I get: >> >> [atri@AtriServer ~]$ mkfs.btrfs /dev/sda3 >> >> WARNING! - Btrfs Btrfs v0.19 IS EXPERIMENTAL >> WARNING! - see http://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org before using >> >> check_mounted(): Could not open /dev/sda3 >> error checking /dev/sda3 mount status > > You need to be root, or (typically) to be in the "disk" group in > order to write to a block device. > > Hugo. > > -- > === Hugo Mills: hugo@... carfax.org.uk | darksatanic.net | lug.org.uk === > PGP key: 515C238D from wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net or http://www.carfax.org.uk > --- "What's so bad about being drunk?" "You ask a glass of water" --- > -- Regards, Atri l'apprenant -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
