Hello, I have a web server with 2 drives running RHEL

I ran fdisk and then mke2fs -v /dev/hdc1 and it is returning;

[root@server01 root]# mke2fs -v /dev/hdc1
mke2fs 1.32 (09-Nov-2002)
mke2fs: Device size reported to be zero. Invalid partition specified, or
partition table wasn't reread after running fdisk, due to
a modified partition being busy and in use. You may need to reboot
to re-read your partition table.

This is what sfdisk -l is returning

[root@server01 root]# sfdisk -l

Disk /dev/hdc: 9726 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/hdc1 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/hdc2 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/hdc3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/hdc4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty

Disk /dev/hda: 9726 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 0+ 12 13- 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 13 267 255 2048287+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda3 268 9725 9458 75971385 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
Warning: start=63 - this looks like a partition rather than
the entire disk. Using fdisk on it is probably meaningless.
[Use the --force option if you really want this]
[root@server01 root]#

How do I correct this? I only want the second drive as extra storage.

To me it seems abit odd that fdisk jumped over hdb and went to hdc. I wonder if you have the drives jumpered correctly and are they being properly detected in the bios?

I have a dedicated server so I can not check it out. Everyone else that has a second drive also shows hdc. Any recommendations on how to format?

Thanks

You seem to be mixing up the commands. Unless you have a reason to use sfdisk, I would stick with fdisk.

You won't be able to format any empty partitions.....
/dev/hdc1 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/hdc2 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/hdc3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/hdc4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty


So, using fdisk, the command would look like this....
/sbin/fdisk /dev/hdc

"it seems abit odd that..."

it's not odd at all if there's a secondary master hard drive.

but, yeah, what homey said. there's no partitions to format.