On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 05:32:25PM +1100, hce wrote: > I am partitioning and formating an external HDD. I made a stupid > mistake, I called "mkfs.ext3 /dev/md0" before calling "fdisk > /dev/md0". Now it seems that the process stopped at following last > line "Writing inode tables: 14/1864":
/dev/md0 would be the first raid array. You have an external drive as part of a raid array? I'm not saying that its not useful, I'm just clarifying. Without running fdisk to create a partition, you've attempted to write a filesystem on the whole device. There shouldn't be a problem with this so I don't know what the problem is. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
