i'm having trouble with MKFS on 2-digit logical partitions on my
HDA drive. i ran CFDISK on hda[9,10,11] identically. 9 is fine,
but 10 and 11 just snurl up their noses. any ideas?
# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3739 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 30 240943+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 * 31 33 24097+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 34 63 240975 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda4 64 3739 29527470 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 64 367 2441848+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 368 549 1461883+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 550 1157 4883728+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 1158 1765 4883728+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda9 1766 2130 2931831 83 Linux
/dev/hda10 2131 2495 2931831 83 Linux
/dev/hda11 2496 3739 9992398+ 83 Linux
# mkfs.ext2 /dev/hda9
mke2fs 1.18, 11-Nov-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=4096 (log=2)
Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
1982464 inodes, 3964030 blocks
198201 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=0
121 block groups
32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
16384 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208
[snip]
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done
# mkfs.ext2 /dev/hda10
mke2fs 1.18, 11-Nov-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
/dev/hda10: Invalid argument passed to ext2 library while setting up superblock
# mkfs.ext2 /dev/hda11
mke2fs 1.18, 11-Nov-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
/dev/hda11: Invalid argument passed to ext2 library while setting up superblock
i'm trying to set up partitions for oracle 8i... what incantation
have i missed?
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