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08-01-2003, 03:27 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Mobile, AL
Distribution: Redhat, Mandrake and trying to learn more about Slack
Posts: 22
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Creating a partition, formatting, etc
I created a parititon (/dev/hdb11) with cfdisk, but when i tried to format it with mke2fs, I got an error: "The device apparently does not exist;"
Did I forget to do something? when I pull up cfdisk, this parition does show up on the table.
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08-01-2003, 03:35 PM
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Registered: Aug 2002
Posts: 26,635
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Is it the create filesystem type?
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08-01-2003, 03:38 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Mobile, AL
Distribution: Redhat, Mandrake and trying to learn more about Slack
Posts: 22
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What do you mean by that?
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08-01-2003, 03:47 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jun 2003
Distribution: Debian/other
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Hi Jason
Cfdisk has the ability to create Linux filesystems - after youve created a partition - then tab accross to TYPE - youll see a large list of filesystem types
Type - 83 produces a Linux filesystem.
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08-02-2003, 05:13 AM
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Moderator
Registered: Aug 2002
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Quote:
Originally posted by JasonSmead
What do you mean by that?
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It appears I had a disconnection between my fingers and the brain.
So what is the filesystem type for hdb11? |
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08-03-2003, 06:18 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Mobile, AL
Distribution: Redhat, Mandrake and trying to learn more about Slack
Posts: 22
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I had to reboot to get it to work... Why did I have to do that? That is the million dollar question.
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