On Nov 6 10:08, Phani Deepak Parasuramuni wrote: > Hi, > > I am using Cygwin 1.7.7 on Windows 7. > > I have installed e2fsprogs-1.41.12 on cygwin. > > I have carved out a 10G partition in my harddisk using windows disk manager. > > My 'cat /proc/partitions' command also lists out my sda2 partition, so > I am sure that there is sda2 partition with 10G > > $ cat /proc/partitions > major minor #blocks name > 8 0 312571224 sda > 8 1 302083072 sda1 > 8 2 10484736 sda2 > > Now, I am trying to use mkfs.ext4 to create an ext4 file system on > this partition. > > This is the command I am using: > $/usr/sbin/mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda2 > > it fails with error message; > "mkfs.ext4: Bad file descriptor while trying to determine filesystem size" > > Any idea why it is happening so?
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