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I've got Maxtor DiamondPlys 9 200gt hd I've made 4 x 50gt partitions of it. I formated one partition so I could convert it to ext2/ext3 but mkfs says like ...
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  1. 01-24-2005 #1
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    HDD problem

    I've got Maxtor DiamondPlys 9 200gt hd
    I've made 4 x 50gt partitions of it.

    I formated one partition so I could convert it to ext2/ext3
    but mkfs says like this:

    root@scourge:/# mkfs.ext3 /dev/hdd2
    mke2fs 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)
    /dev/hdd2: Invalid argument passed to ext2 library while setting up superblock
    root@scourge:/#
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    Not to be pessimist, but does hdd2 exist?

    list you partitions here
    Code:
    fdisk -l
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    Quote Originally Posted by UgoDeschamps
    Not to be pessimist, but does hdd2 exist?

    list you partitions here
    Code:
    fdisk -l
    root@scourge:/home/ville# fdisk -l /dev/hdd

    Disk /dev/hdd: 203.9 GB, 203928109056 bytes
    240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 26342 cylinders
    Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes

    Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
    /dev/hdd1 1 6772 51196288+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
    /dev/hdd2 6773 13544 51196320 83 Linux
    /dev/hdd3 13545 20316 51196320 83 Linux
    /dev/hdd4 20317 26342 45556560 83 Linux
    root@scourge:/home/ville#
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    It's always a good idea to reboot after partitioning, if you haven't already. Even though it's not usually a problem, sometimes it results in errors like this.

    I'd also try running badblock before much searching, and trying ext2 and reiser.[/i]
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    ok /dev/hdd is the slave on the 2nd ide channel
    and the command to make ext3 is
    Code:
    mke2fs -j /dev/hddn
    and to make ext2 the command is
    Code:
    mke2fs /dev/hddn
    the 'n' being the partition number that u want to format
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    Dunno was it the boot or mr. Penguins command but now it's working.




    Thanks to you who came to help. .

    ps. Tryed reiserfs also, didn't work at the time.
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    Loft, I have both mke2fs and mkfs.ext3/ext2 on my system. I've always used mke2fs -j, but it appears the mkfs.ext3 is the same thing by the man page. If you know more about this, I'd love to hear it.
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    well sorry there ... we learn new things everyday!
    and in linux there are many commands that do the samething. so many things just developed over time one guy liked it this way another guy liked it that way...so ...thats all i can figure we are human.
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    Quote Originally Posted by loft306
    well sorry there ... we learn new things everyday!
    and in linux there are many commands that do the samething. so many things just developed over time one guy liked it this way another guy liked it that way...so ...thats all i can figure we are human.
    I think this is no new thing for u but,

    Slackware man page sayed that mkfs -t <filesystem> /dev/ice

    is the same thing

    (Just wanted to sound smart)
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