mke2fs error

[Rick Stevens]

Storms, Friedhelm wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to install RHEL 3AS on a rx4640 server.
> Based on following partitions I tried to create new filesystems. 
> This was no problem for sda1 to sda7 but for sda8 I got follwing error:
> 
> -/bin/sh-2.05b# mke2fs -jv /dev/sda8
> mke2fs 1.32 (09-Nov-2002)
> mke2fs: No such device or address while trying to determine filesystem
> size
> 
> -/bin/sh-2.05b# fdisk /dev/sda
> 
> Command (m for help): p
> 
> Disk /dev/sda: 73.4 GB, 73407865856 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 8924 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> 
>    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1             1        13    104391   ee  EFI GPT
> /dev/sda2            14       512   4008217+  fd  Linux raid autodetect
> /dev/sda3           513      2505  16008772+  fd  Linux raid autodetect
> /dev/sda4          2506      8924  51560617+   5  Extended
> /dev/sda5          2506      3502   8008371   fd  Linux raid autodetect
> /dev/sda6          3503      4001   4008186   fd  Linux raid autodetect
> /dev/sda7          4002      4500   4008186   fd  Linux raid autodetect
> /dev/sda8          4501      4999   4008186   fd  Linux raid autodetect
> 
> Any ideas what's going wrong with this sda8 partition?

Er, is the RAID system running at the time you're doing these mke2fs
commands?  And you didn't do "mke2fs -jv /dev/sda4", did you?   (NEVER
"mke2fs" an extended partition itself--only the sub partitions in it
such as /dev/sda5, sda6, sda7, sda8).
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