On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Michael Jinks wrote:
> I'm rearranging my spare hard drive. I used to have it split into a 2G
> DOS partition, a 2G NTFS partition, and a 4G extended partition
> containing two or three logical partitions. I got rid of the extended
> and the NTFS but left the DOS partition, and I'd like to take the 6G now
> freed on the disk and make it a single e2fs filesystem.
>
> Okay, ran fdisk, it didn't complain...
>
> [root@gaea /root]# fdisk /dev/hda
>
> Command (m for help): p
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1021 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 1 261 2096451 6 FAT16
> /dev/hda2 262 1021 6104700 83 Linux
>
> Command (m for help):
>
> ...but when I try to make a filesystem I get nothing but complaints:
>
> [root@gaea /root]# mke2fs /dev/hda2
> mke2fs 1.18, 11-Nov-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
> /dev/hda2: Not enough space to build proposed filesystem while setting
> up superblock
>
> Wha...?
>
> Any idea what might cause this? The mke2fs manpage is silent on
> debugging issues, and I'm not sure where else to look.
>
> Thanks,
> -m
>
>
What does /proc/partitions show? Does the kernel know about the new
partition table?
Mikkel
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