Re: [ok-mail] [OS:N:] Adding a partition

[Alfred Hovdestad <alfred hovdestad usask ca>]

What is the output of fdisk -l /dev/sda?  Was the new partition 
(/dev/sda3?) created as an ext3 partition?

  Alfred Hovdestad, RHCE
  University of Saskatchewan



linuxls02 wrote:
> I tried that and I get No such device or address while trying to determine filesystem size.
>
> Here is a list of sda in /dev
>
> 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
> -----Original Message-----
> From: open-source-now-list-bounces redhat com [mailto:open-source-now-list-bounces redhat com] On Behalf Of John Hansknecht
> Posted At: Saturday, October 15, 2005 9:23 AM
> Posted To: Red Hat Linux
> Conversation: [ok-mail] [OS:N:] Adding a partition
> Subject: Re: [ok-mail] [OS:N:] Adding a partition
>
>
> On Saturday 15 October 2005 09:08, linuxls02 wrote:
>
> > Good morning, I am trying to add a partition to my Linux system.  I am
> > trying to create a partition on a drive that already has some smaller
> > partitions on it.  I was able to create the partition, but when I try to
> > mount it on /temp I get that /dev/sda3 is not a valid block device.
>
> Did you create a file system on the partition with mkfs? Try man mkfs for 
> details but a simple command would be
>
> mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sda3