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

[Alfred Hovdestad <alfred hovdestad usask ca>]

Have you rebooted since you repartitioned the disk?  If not, you can 
either reboot or run the partprobe command (man partprobe).

partprobe /dev/sda

   Alfred



linuxls02 wrote:
> This is a SCSI drive.  And I got my same error trying sbin/mkfs
> /sbin/mkfs /dev/sda3
> mke2fs 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)
> mkfs.ext2: No such device or address while trying to determine
> filesystem size
>
> Here is my version information:
>
> 2.4.31-5tr #1 Fri Aug 26 12:16:23 CEST 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/L
> Inux
>
> Thank you very much for your help
>
> Richard Tracy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: open-source-now-list-bounces redhat com
> [mailto:open-source-now-list-bounces redhat com] On Behalf Of Alfred
> Hovdestad
> Posted At: Saturday, October 15, 2005 6:35 PM
> Posted To: Red Hat Linux
> Conversation: [ok-mail] [OS:N:] Adding a partition
> Subject: Re: [ok-mail] [OS:N:] Adding a partition
>
> 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
>
>
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