Problem with mkfs

[Jor-el <jorel@marvin.megadodo.umb>]

Hi,

	My /dev/hdb was partitioned into /dev/hdb1 and /dev/hdb2 primary
partitions. I used fdisk to repartition /dev/hdb1. What I did was (1)
delete /dev/hdb1 (2) Create an extended partition replacing the space
occupied by /dev/hdb1 (3) Create two logical partitions in that space :
/dev/hdb5 and /dev/hdb6. Here is what I now get :

/etc#fdisk /dev/hdb

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 525 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot   Start      End   Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdb1            1      200  1606468+   5  Extended
/dev/hdb2          201      525  2610562+  83  Linux native
/dev/hdb5            1       70   562212   83  Linux native
/dev/hdb6           71      200  1044193+  83  Linux native

	However, when I now try to create an ext2 filesystem on these
newly created partitions, I get :

/etc#mkfs -t ext2 /dev/hdb5
mke2fs 1.12, 9-Jul-98 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
/dev/hdb5: Invalid argument passed to ext2 library while setting up
superblock

	What is going on here? I get the same results with /dev/hdb6. I
read and reread the mkfs and the mke2fs manpages until I became blue in
the face, but I cant find any syntax error in my invocation.

TIA,
Jor-el

PS. The system is running Slink. 


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