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| author | Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> | 2012-05-24 12:30:50 +0100 |
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| committer | Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> | 2012-06-01 19:30:29 +0100 |
| commit | 18c4688fcb3eadf332723de4a6ff996ce12ab1a8 (patch) | |
| tree | d5eac038c392c2a15a046665de9963720752534f | |
| parent | 149ba0506cbd77d6a25b57b35efccfa3b03c11eb (diff) | |
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virt-make-fs: Provide a clearer error message when mkfs fails (RHBZ#823883).
(cherry picked from commit 975a41db20eff2b5edf510f8a65005c915b21f27)
| -rwxr-xr-x | tools/virt-make-fs | 14 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/virt-make-fs b/tools/virt-make-fs index 3938e277..f4977672 100755 --- a/tools/virt-make-fs +++ b/tools/virt-make-fs @@ -448,7 +448,19 @@ eval { print STDERR "creating $type filesystem on $dev ...\n" if $debug; # Create the filesystem. - $g->mkfs ($type, $dev); + eval { + $g->mkfs ($type, $dev); + }; + if ($@) { + # Provide more guidance in the error message (RHBZ#823883). + print STDERR "'mkfs' (create filesystem) operation failed.\n"; + if ($type eq "fat") { + print STDERR "Instead of 'fat', try 'vfat' (long filenames) or 'msdos' (short filenames).\n"; + } else { + print STDERR "Is '$type' a correct filesystem type?\n"; + } + die + } $g->mount ($dev, "/"); # Copy the data in. |