Partition question

microsoft/linux · 07-06-2005, 11:17 AM

I'm trying to use LFS, but I can't make en ext3 filesystem on /dev/hda6. here's my partition table

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Partition Table for /dev/hda

First Last
# Type Sector Sector Offset Length Filesystem Type (ID) Flag
-- ------- ----------- ----------- ------ ----------- -------------------- ----
1 Primary 0 29350754* 63 29350755*HPFS/NTFS (07) Boot
2 Primary 29350755* 37945529* 0 8594775*W95 FAT32 (LBA) (0C) None
3 Primary 37945530* 47713049* 0 9767520 Linux (83) None
4 Primary 47713050* 58605119 0 10892070*Extended (05) None
5 Logical 47713050* 48885794* 63 1172745*Linux swap / So (82) None
Logical 48885795* 58605119 0 9719325*Free Space None

any help would be appreciated

tangle · 07-06-2005, 11:27 AM

Where are you running into the problem?

microsoft/linux · 07-06-2005, 11:47 AM

it won't let me make the ext3 partition when I do mkfs.ext3 /dev/hda6. Perhaps because of the /dev/hda4 extended primary partition? I think it's the journalling part of the ext3(/dev/hda3) partition. Anyway to change that?

tangle · 07-06-2005, 01:19 PM

Did you partition the space with fdisk or cfdisk? If not, that would be the problem. I personually use fdisk, cfdisk has a nicer look though.

microsoft/linux · 07-06-2005, 07:44 PM

I left an empty space when I installed debian, then I tried to write an ext3 fs to the empty space using cfdisk. That wasn't working. I then tried mkfs.ext3(today) and it worked! Sorry this thread was so pointless.