[ok-mail] [OS:N:] Adding a partition

[linuxls02]

This is a SCSI drive.  And I got my same error trying sbin/mkfs
/sbin/mkfs /dev/sda3
mke2fs 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)
mkfs.ext2: No such device or address while trying to determine
filesystem size

Here is my version information:

2.4.31-5tr #1 Fri Aug 26 12:16:23 CEST 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/L
Inux

Thank you very much for your help

Richard Tracy

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Posted At: Saturday, October 15, 2005 6:35 PM
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Conversation: [ok-mail] [OS:N:] Adding a partition
Subject: Re: [ok-mail] [OS:N:] Adding a partition

Which version of Linux are you running?  I assume a recent version of 
Red Hat but you never specified which version of Linux.  Try building a 
file system without the ext3 (this builds an ext2 file system):

/sbin/mkfs /dev/sda3



Secondly, what type of drive is /dev/sda?  Is it a SCSI drive, or USB, 
or SATA, or ???  Not all ddrives called sda are SCSI drives.  Look for 
sda in /var/log/dmesg:

grep sda /var/log/dmesg

   Alfred Hovdestad, RHCE
   University of Saskatchewan



linuxls02 wrote:
> Here is the fdisk,
> 
> Disk /dev/sda: 4293 MB, 4293632000 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 522 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *           1           6       48163+  83  Linux
> /dev/sda2               7          30      192780   82  Linux swap /
> Solaris
> /dev/sda3              31         522     3951990   83  Linux
> 
> Thank you
> 
> Richard Tracy

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