Debian sarge. I just installed it on the primary drive (clean install, 
wiped out all old stuff) and that ended up with ext3, so I thought it 
should be possible to put ext3 on the new secondary drive. Am I wrong on 
this?

Mark

Vaughn Treude wrote:

>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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