----- Original Message -----
From: Vijay Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 3:51 PM
Subject: [LIH]disk format ext3


> Hi,
>
> I have created a partition using fdisk ( /dev/sda11) in RedHat ES 2.1
> When I run mkfs /dev/sda11 command it gives error :
> "No such device or address while trying to determine the filesystem size "

I faced the same problem recently. You will have to restart the machine,
unless you can unmount all other mounted partitions on sda.

> How can I format the partition ? How can I have ext3 filesystem ?
> Also, when I type mkfs, I see other file like mkfs.ext2, mkfs.msdos etc..
> but i dont see any mkfs.ext3 file ? Do I need to install anything else ?

mke2fs -j -c /dev/sda11

Regards,

Craig





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