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

[Alfred Hovdestad <alfred hovdestad usask ca>]

Which version of Linux are you running?  I assume a recent version of 
Red Hat but you never specified which version of Linux.  Try building a 
file system without the ext3 (this builds an ext2 file system):

/sbin/mkfs /dev/sda3



Secondly, what type of drive is /dev/sda?  Is it a SCSI drive, or USB, 
or SATA, or ???  Not all ddrives called sda are SCSI drives.  Look for 
sda in /var/log/dmesg:

grep sda /var/log/dmesg

  Alfred Hovdestad, RHCE
  University of Saskatchewan



linuxls02 wrote:
> Here is the fdisk,
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 4293 MB, 4293632000 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 522 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *           1           6       48163+  83  Linux
> /dev/sda2               7          30      192780   82  Linux swap /
> Solaris
> /dev/sda3              31         522     3951990   83  Linux
>
> Thank you
>
> Richard Tracy