I am running Red Hat 6.2 using an IDE disk. I have formatted the disk as follows:
# fdisk -l /dev/hda Disk /dev/hda: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 39870 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda4 1 39870 20094479+ 5 Extended /dev/hda5 1 6096 3072383 83 Linux /dev/hda6 6097 9144 1536191+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hda7 9145 11176 1024096+ 83 Linux /dev/hda8 11177 21335 5120104+ 83 Linux /dev/hda9 21336 39870 9341608+ 83 Linux For some reason I cannot create a file system on /dev/hda8 or /dev/hda9: # mkfs.ext2 /dev/hda8 mke2fs 1.18, 11-Nov-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 /dev/hda8: Invalid argument passed to ext2 library while setting up superblock # mkfs.ext2 /dev/hda9 mke2fs 1.18, 11-Nov-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 /dev/hda9: Invalid argument passed to ext2 library while setting up superblock Does anyone know why this is happening? I do a search on Google and didn't find anything. I'm not really sure what the problem is. It could be an IDE disk thing. Unfortunately, I'm not an expert with IDE disks under Linux. Regards, Dustin --- Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Information Systems Contractor http://members.telocity.com/~dpuryear PGP Key available at http://www.us.pgp.net In the beginning the Universe was created. This has been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================
