I just tried this on sda5 (which I know I created) and got the same response.
Do you think I should just start over? I don't. I think thaat the insight I
will receive from getti9ng it to work as-is could be inval;ueable; but if
that mkfs needs to be run and the drive needs to be empty, then that is what
needs to happen.
:)~MIKE~(:
mke2fs 1.34-WIP (21-May-2003)
/mnt/sda5 is not a block special device.
Proceed anyway? (y,n) y
mkfs.ext2: Device size reported to be zero. Invalid partition specified, or
partition table wasn't reread after running fdisk, due to
a modified partition being busy and in use. You may need to reboot
to re-read your partition table.
root@bmike1:/mnt#
On Tuesday 05 August 2003 06:33 pm, Michael Havens wrote:
> I just realized that I could test the mkfs on an exhisting partition with
> files on it and got:
> root@bmike1:/mnt# mkfs -t ext2 -j /mnt/sda6
> mke2fs 1.34-WIP (21-May-2003)
> /mnt/sda6 is not a block special device.
> Proceed anyway? (y,n) y
> mkfs.ext2: Device size reported to be zero. Invalid partition specified,
> or partition table wasn't reread after running fdisk, due to
> a modified partition being busy and in use. You may need to reboot
> to re-read your partition table.
> root@bmike1:/mnt#
> That, to me, seems to be confirming that it isn't real. Why does fdisk -l
> say that sda6 it starts on cylinder 901 and ends on 1001 while mkfs reports
> it at zero in length?
>
> root@bmike1:/mnt# fdisk -l /dev/sda
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 1050 MB, 1050112000 bytes
> 64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 1001 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sda1 * 1 400 409584 82 Linux swap
> /dev/sda2 401 1001 615424 5 Extended
> /dev/sda5 401 900 511984 83 Linux
> /dev/sda6 901 1001 103408 83 Linux
> root@bmike1:/mnt#
>
>
> > I think that all my disks need to have the mkfs -t ext2 -j <location>
> > done to them. Do the disks need to be blank before such an operation is
> > carried out? If I were to make the filesystem msdos on the floppy disks
> > then I could use them with the rest of the world (M$), right? If that is
> > so it is mkfs -t msdos, right (man & info doesn't have this info) or is
> > it fat32? Never mind this last part here. I just found the command: it is
> > mkfs.msdos or mkfs.vfat. So what is the difference between... never mind
> > that either. Man pages indicate they are the same command.
> >
> > :)~MIKE~(:
> >
> > (what makes me think this is that when I go to my Linux partition <hda5>
> > it tells me nothing is in the directory)
> >
> > bmike1@bmike1:~$ cd /mnt
> > bmike1@bmike1:/mnt$ ls
> > cdrom floppy hda1 hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 sda5 sda6
> > bmike1@bmike1:/mnt$ mount floppy
> > mount: can't find /mnt/floppy in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab (it is in fstab)
> > bmike1@bmike1:/mnt$ mount cdrom
> > bmike1@bmike1:/mnt$ mount cdrom
> > mount: can't find /mnt/cdrom in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab (it is in fstab)
> > # /etc/fstab: filesystem table.
> > #
> > # filesystem mountpoint type options dump pass
> > /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0
> > /dev/fd0 /floppy vfat defaults,user,auto,showexec,umask=022 0 0
> > /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 vfat
> > defaults,users,exec,umask=000,uid=knoppix,gid=knoppix 0 0
> > /dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
> > /dev/sda5 /mnt/sda5 ext3 defaults,users,exec 0 2
> > /dev/sda6 /mnt/sda6 ext3 defaults,users,exec 0 2
> > /dev/sda1 swap swap noauto 0 0
> > proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
> > /etc/fstab (END)
> > bmike1@bmike1:/mnt$
> > bmike1@bmike1:/mnt$ ls cdrom
> > bmike1@bmike1:/mnt$ ls floppy
> > bmike1@bmike1:/mnt$ ls hda1 (msdos)
> > My Documents bootlog.txt io.sys quickenw suhdlog.dat
> > Program Files command.com msdos.--- recycled system.1st
> > autoexec.bat config.sys msdos.sys scandisk.log temp
> > bootlog.prv detlog.txt netlog.txt setuplog.txt windows
> > bmike1@bmike1:/mnt$ ls hda5 (linux)
> > bmike1@bmike1:/mnt$ ls hda6 (didn't create this)(cat /proc/partitions
> > <which) (is lower>shows this)
> > bmike1@bmike1:/mnt$ ls hda7 (didn't create this)
> > bmike1@bmike1:/mnt$ ls hda8 (didn't create this)
> > bmike1@bmike1:/mnt$ ls sda5
> > downloads drakx-images lost+found
> > bmike1@bmike1:/mnt$ ls sda5/d*
> > sda5/downloads:
> > sda5/drakx-images:
> > 01-thanks.pl 07-desktop.pl 13-mdkcampus.pl
> > 01-thanks.png 07-desktop.png 13-mdkcampus.png
> > 02-community.pl 08-development.pl 14-mdkexpert.pl
> > 02-community.png 08-development.png 14-mdkexpert.png
> > 03-internet.pl 09-server.pl 15-mdkexpert-corporate.pl
> > 03-internet.png 09-server.png 15-mdkexpert-corporate.png
> > 04-multimedia.pl 10-mnf.pl 16-thanks.pl
> > 04-multimedia.png 10-mnf.png 16-thanks.png
> > 05-games.pl 11-mdkstore.pl 17-mdkclub.pl
> > 05-games.png 11-mdkstore.png 17-mdkclub.png
> > 06-mcc.pl 12-mdkstore.pl DEADJOE
> > 06-mcc.png 12-mdkstore.png
> > bmike1@bmike1:/mnt$ ls sda5/do*
> > bmike1@bmike1:/mnt$ ls sda6 (didn't create this)
> > lost+found
> > root@bmike1:/mnt# cat /proc/partitions; cat /etc/fstab; fdisk -l /dev/sda
> > major minor #blocks name
> > 8 0 1025500 sda
> > 8 1 409584 sda1
> > 8 2 1 sda2
> > 8 5 511984 sda5
> > 8 6 103408 sda6
> > 3 0 29316672 hda
> > 3 1 14659281 hda1
> > 3 2 1 hda2
> > 3 5 14651248 hda5
> > # /etc/fstab: filesystem table.
> > #
> > # filesystem mountpoint type options dump pass
> > /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0
> > /dev/fd0 /floppy vfat defaults,user,auto,showexec,umask=022 0 0
> > /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 vfat
> > defaults,users,exec,umask=000,uid=knoppix,gid=knoppix 0 0
> > /dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
> > /dev/sda5 /mnt/sda5 ext3 defaults,users,exec 0 2
> > /dev/sda6 /mnt/sda6 ext3 defaults,users,exec 0 2
> > /dev/sda1 swap swap noauto 0 0
> > proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
> >
> > Disk /dev/sda: 1050 MB, 1050112000 bytes
> > 64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 1001 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes
> >
> > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> > /dev/sda1 * 1 400 409584 82 Linux swap (swap)
> > /dev/sda2 401 1001 615424 5 Extended
> > /dev/sda5 401 900 511984 83 Linux
> > /dev/sda6 901 1001 103408 83 Linux
> >
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