Re: Partitioning RAID5 disks into 2 Filesystems

[Matthias Julius <lists@julius-net.net>]

"Pabla,Balbir [Ontario]" <Balbir.Pabla@ec.gc.ca> writes:

> I tried :
> fdisk -s 1020000000 /dev/sdb    ... it says cannot open 1020000000 ...
> What is wrong with my syntax?

You don't have a partition called 1020000000.

>From man fdisk

,----
| -s partition
|       The size of the partition (in blocks) is printed on the
|       standard output.
`----

This is not what you want.  This prints the size of the partition on
screen.  Try 'fdisk /dev/sdb'

>
> May I know exact sysntax of commands to partition and create 2
> filesystems on my 7 RAID disks.

Type 'm' at the fdisk prompt.

Matthias