On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 04:41:03PM -0700, Dave Martini 1 wrote:
> I installed a new 160gig drive into my DELL running RHEL 3.
> I went into the setup utility/bios and enabled drive 2.
> I have 4 partitions on the sda boot drive.
> I did an fdisk and created 1 extended partition using the entire drive.
You should not create an extended partition - it should be a primary
partition because you're on a fresh drive. You wouldn't be able to use
it in Windows this way either.
> When I run mkfs I get this error
>
> mke2fs 1.32 (09-Nov-2002)
> mkfs.ext3: No such device or address while trying to determine filesystem size
> [root@host1 root]# fdisk -l /dev/sdb
>
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sda1 * 1 127 1020096 83 Linux
> /dev/sda2 128 1019 7164990 83 Linux
> /dev/sda3 1020 1274 2048287+ 82 Linux swap
> /dev/sda4 1275 14000 102221595 83 Linux
This is your first clue - all of the data partitions are of type 83.
> [root@host1 root]# fdisk /dev/sdb
>
> Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160000000000 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19452 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sdb1 1 19332 155284258+ 5 Extended
Change this to type 83 and you'll be much happier.
.../Ed
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