Have you formated the new partition?


Zhong Sheng wrote:

> Hi, everyone
> I was trying to change a win95 partition into a Linux partition.
> I boot Linux and use fdisk to delete the win95 partition and add a Linux
> primary partition.  After I save the changes  (I also tried to reboot Linux)
> I redisplayed the partition information and it shows that new partition
> is Linux native.  But when  I try to 'mkfs -t ext2 /dev/hdb4',  I got an error
> message "/dev/hdb4 is not a blocked device".
> Can anyone tell me the correct way to do it?
>
> I am running Redhat 5.0.
>
> Thanks
>
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