On Friday 03 December 2004 12:12, you wrote:
> I added a second hard drive to an older EIDE system, but I cannot get a
> file system on it. This is not my primary drive, but a second drive.
>
>  Here is what I did:
>
> 1. Ran fdisk and wrote the following partition table:
> spongebob:~# fdisk -l /dev/hdb
>
> Disk /dev/hdb: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hdb1               1       14593   117218241   85  Linux extended
> spongebob:~#
>
> 2. I then tried to create a file system:
> spongebob:~# mke2fs -cjv -L patrick /dev/hdb1
> mke2fs 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)
> /dev/hdb1: Invalid argument passed to ext2 library while setting up
> superblock
> spongebob:~#
>
> I tried all sorts of parameter combinations and always get the same
> error. I took out the '-L patrick'; I took out the 'v', I took out the
> 'c'. My final test:
> spongebob:~# mke2fs -j /dev/hdb1
> mke2fs 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)
> /dev/hdb1: Invalid argument passed to ext2 library while setting up
> superblock
> spongebob:~#

I usually just use "mkfs", which defaults to ext2.  But I suppose you need 
journaling.  I have an older Mandrake system which doesn't support ext3 file 
systems and there's no "-j" option.  What distro/version is this?

Vaughn

>
> So, what am I doing wrong?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mark
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