mkfs.ext3: No medium found

FreezEy · 05-14-2007, 01:42 PM

mkfs.ext3: No medium found while trying to determine filesystem size

I keep getting this error everytime i try to format my other drive... not sure whats the problem

Hern_28 · 05-14-2007, 02:44 PM

Think the command is more like:

mkfs.ext3 /dev/****
where **** is sda(Partition Number) or hda(Partition Number)
and don't bracket partition number just hda1 and such... Hope that helps.

Just make sure its the right one

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