On Mon, 29 Sep 1997 23:32:21 PDT David Stern ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm having an irregular experience with mke2fs. I'm attempting to > format /dev/sda16 and message says: > > > debian# mke2fs -v /dev/sda16 > > mke2fs 1.10, 24-Apr-97 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 > > /dev/sda16 is entire device, not just one partition! > > Proceed anyway? (y,n) > > But /dev/sda16 is just a 500MB partition, not an entire device: > > [..] > /dev/sda4 147 147 527 3060382+ 5 Extended > [..] > /dev/sda16 463 463 527 522081 83 Linux native > > I tried changing the beginning and ending cylinders, to no avail. Why > does mke2fs think /dev/sda16 is the entire drive?
Because /dev/sda16 has major 8, minor 16, which is the major/minor pair for /dev/sdb: look at 'ls -l /dev/sda16 /dev/sdb'. BTW, you have created sda16 yourself didn't you :-) There is an infortunate 15 partition limit on PCs. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
