[rhn-users] partition help

Alejandro alex at volarhoy.com
Tue Mar 29 08:54:57 UTC 2005


	Did you refresh partition table or rebooted system?
	You need to run partprobe command first, or reboot.
	After that you can format new partition.
	Best Regards Alex

On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 18:27 -0500, dcdesi at gmail.com wrote:
> hi,
> 
> I am responding back to the partition problem which i had posted earleir.
> 
> I used fdisk /dev/sda and created a new partition 'sda10'.
> when i do fstab -l, it shows as
> fdisk -l
> 
> Disk /dev/sda: 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/sda1             1         7     56196   de  Dell Utility
> /dev/sda2             8       334   2626627+  83  Linux
> /dev/sda3   *       335       359    200812+  83  Linux
> /dev/sda4           360     19452 153364522+   f  Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/sda5           360      1633  10233373+  83  Linux
> /dev/sda6          1634      1698    522081   82  Linux swap
> /dev/sda7          1699      1829   1052226   83  Linux
> /dev/sda8          1830      2090   2096451   83  Linux
> /dev/sda9          2091      3364  10233373+  83  Linux
> /dev/sda10         3365     19452 129226828+  83  Linux
> 
> Now when I run 
>   mkfs -V -t ext3 -L /home /dev/sda10
> I get this error
> mkfs version 2.11y (Oct  6 2004)
> mkfs.ext3 -L /space /dev/sda10
> mke2fs 1.32 (09-Nov-2002)
> mkfs.ext3: No such device or address while trying to determine filesystem size
> 
> Could someone help inthis regard
> 
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