Re: how to format mySeagate ST33210A
Ralph Winslow <rjw@nac.net> writes:
> I just got a new HD and tried to format it using my Debian 1.0
> Installation Boot
> & Emergency disk set. I made the disk primary and unplugged my current
> 2.1Mb
> drive and booted the first disk and partitioned using the second
> (Ramdisk).
What do you mean by "using the second"?
> I made a 100Mb swap and the rest, ~3Gb, Linux bootable, then made the
> swap area
> with no problems. But when I tried to format the Linux partition it
> failed with
> 256/373mkfs.ext2: can'r resolve symbol 'llseek'.
I wonder if this is a known bug. Can you reproduce it?
Please report it if necessary.
> I then made the drive
> secondary
> and re-plugged my 2Gb 2.2 primary drive and rebooted, hoping to format
> from my
> regular system. I tried mke2fs /dev/hdd, but it says, no such device.
Try mke2fs /dev/hdd2 or /dev/hdd5 depending on if the ~3GB is in a
primary or extended partition.
/dev/hdd is the complete hard disk.
Please post a "fdisk -l", if it does not work.
What does dmesg report?
> I did
> an apropos format | more, but didn't spot a disk formatter in the
> voluminous
> output. Can anyone spare a clue for a veteran? TIA
mke2fs is the formatter.
Jens
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