Thanks for everybodies help. This fixed the problem. As was kindly pointed out to me. The information I had was good for 7.3 not 7.2.
I tested this as well and it works, if the partition is already set-up for ext2. tune2fs -j /dev/hdb1 Thanks again to everybody. david On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, gabriel wrote: > On January 2, 2003 03:04 pm, dbrett wrote: > > I am trying to create a new partition on a new hard drive installed on > > RH7.2 system > > > > When I run the command: > > /sbin/mkfs -t ext3 /dev/hdb1 > > > > It fails because it cannot find mkfs.ext3. > > > > The problem I have is it can create ext2 partition. It created ext3 > > partitions when I first installed the o/s. > > i think you're looking for: > > mke2fs /dev/hdb1 > > that'll make an ext2 partition > > for ext3, use -j > > mke2fs -j /dev/hdb1 > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
