Hi Tim, you have to create a partition with fdasd after formatting:
fdasd -a /dev/dasds regards, Volker >I tried to format a DASD (CDL) and run into the following problem. I am >using SLES7.2 (kernel 2.4.17), s390-tools-1.1.4 and e2fsprogs-1.23-2. > >First off all I used dasdfmt: > > dasdfmt -f /dev/dasds -b 4096 > >After that I tried to create an ext2 filesystem > > mke2fs /dev/dasds1 -b 4096 > >and got the following error: > > >/ # mke2fs /dev/dasds1 -b 4096 >mke2fs 1.23, 15-Aug-2001 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 >mke2fs: Device size reported to be zero. Invalid partition specified, or > partition table wasn't reread after running fdisk, due to > a modified partition being busy and in use. You may need to reboot > to re-read your partition table.
