making a file system

making a file system

[Glenn at home]

Thanks to all for all the help so far.
I got brave and decided that I would use fDisk and make another partition on 
my drive.
I made it a primary, and I gave it #2, so I think it is /dev/hda2
Now, I try to mount /dev/hda2 /mnt
and it tells me that I need to specify a file system.
I tried
mkfs /dev/hda2
and the same with /mnt at the end, and in both cases, it says
invalid argument passed to ext 2library while setting up super block
I looked at
man mkfs
but I still don't know how to tell it what file system to use.
Should I put something like X3 or x2?
Thanks

Re: making a file system

[Adam Myrow]

Try mke2fs instead of mkfs.  You will always use the device/partition 
format.  That is, /dev/hda2.  To make sure that's really the right device, 
do "fdisk -l /dev/hda" and it will show you all your partitions.  You 
don't want to accidentally wipe out the wrong partition, so make sure you 
are using the right one.

Re: making a file system

[Igor Gueths]

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Mkfs is just a frontend for various filesystem makers. What you need is the actual program that creates the filesystem (I think those are easier to work with), like mke2fs for EXT2 and 
mkreiserfs for ReiserFS for example. 
On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 10:34:40PM -0500, Glenn at home wrote:
> Thanks to all for all the help so far.
> I got brave and decided that I would use fDisk and make another partition on 
> my drive.
> I made it a primary, and I gave it #2, so I think it is /dev/hda2
> Now, I try to mount /dev/hda2 /mnt
> and it tells me that I need to specify a file system.
> I tried
> mkfs /dev/hda2
> and the same with /mnt at the end, and in both cases, it says
> invalid argument passed to ext 2library while setting up super block
> I looked at
> man mkfs
> but I still don't know how to tell it what file system to use.
> Should I put something like X3 or x2?
> Thanks
> 
> 
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Re: making a file system

[Lorenzo Taylor]

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Try using mke2fs instead:

mke2fs /dev/hda2

or

mke2fs -j /dev/hda2

if you want ext3.

Lorenzo
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