one comment: ext2 is ancient, it may not be able to address this kind
of space:-) try ext3 or better yet, ext4, but at least ext3.
Check also with
fdisk -l /dev/hdb
is the partition table looks ok.
On 02/24/2011 06:58 PM, Howard Sanner wrote:
I'm trying to create a linux partition & format a 500GB Western
Digital EIDE HD under Suse 10.0. I'd like one 500GB partitition.
By using cfdisk I managed to create a non-bootable primary partition
/dev/hdb1 with type 0x83. So far, so good.
When I try to create an ext2 filesystem,
mkfs -v -c -t ext2 /dev/hdb1
gives an "invalid blocks count" error. However, the man page seems to
indicate that blocs count is optional. Running
mkfs.ext2 -c -v /dev/hdb1
returns "could not stat /dev/hdb1 -- no such file or directory" and
asks if I specified it correctly.
I suspect the second error message is the real problem: /dev/hdb
exists but /dev/hdb1 does not. I seem to recall there's a special
command to create a block device, but I can't find it in any of the
messages I've saved from this mailing list. I'm *sure* I would have
saved something like this!
So please help. I know I'm doing something simple wrong. (This is what
happens when you turn a music major--B.A. '75; M.M. '81--loose with
hardware.)
Thanks.
Howard Sanner
linux-au...@terrier.ampexguy.com
