Help with a large disk parition

["R. Alexander" <rjalex2001@yahoo.com>]

I have a 18GB SCSI HDD.

I have created a first partition (around 6GB) which is labeled /dev/sdb1.

It's in use and works great (a Squid cache).

Now I would like to create a Debian rsync mirror on the last 12GB ...
created the partition with fdisk.

here is the pic:

lori-renato:/home# fdisk -l /dev/sdb

Disk /dev/sdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2212 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1             1       765   6144831   83  Linux
/dev/sdb2           766      2212  11623027+  83  Linux

but this is what I get when I issue the mke2fs command. Am I missing
something obvious ?? Thank you. Bob

lori-renato:~# mke2fs /dev/sdb2
mke2fs 1.25 (20-Sep-2001)
mke2fs: No such device or address while trying to determine filesystem size