When I try to run mkfs.xfs /dev/sda3 I get this
mkfs.xfs: cannot open /dev/sda3: No such device or address

My dev directory for sda* is this

brw-rw----  1 root disk 8,  0 May  5  1998 sda
brw-rw----  1 root disk 8,  1 May  5  1998 sda1
brw-rw----  1 root disk 8, 10 May  5  1998 sda10
brw-rw----  1 root disk 8, 11 May  5  1998 sda11
brw-rw----  1 root disk 8, 12 May  5  1998 sda12
brw-rw----  1 root disk 8, 13 May  5  1998 sda13
brw-rw----  1 root disk 8, 14 May  5  1998 sda14
brw-rw----  1 root disk 8, 15 May  5  1998 sda15
brw-rw----  1 root disk 8,  2 May  5  1998 sda2
brw-rw----  1 root disk 8,  3 May  5  1998 sda3
brw-rw----  1 root disk 8,  4 May  5  1998 sda4
brw-rw----  1 root disk 8,  5 May  5  1998 sda5
brw-rw----  1 root disk 8,  6 May  5  1998 sda6
brw-rw----  1 root disk 8,  7 May  5  1998 sda7
brw-rw----  1 root disk 8,  8 May  5  1998 sda8
brw-rw----  1 root disk 8,  9 May  5  1998 sda9

Not sure why I am getting this error

Thank you for your help

Richard Tracy

-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Zaleski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Posted At: Sunday, October 16, 2005 8:29 AM
Posted To: trustix
Conversation: Adding a partition
Subject: Re: Adding a partition

Hello,

Try to make a filesystem
mkfs.xfs /dev/sda3
mount -t xfs /dev/sda3 /mnt



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