Re: /dev/sda2 - Bad file descriptor error with mkfs.ext4 on cygwin

On Nov 6 10:08, Phani Deepak Parasuramuni wrote: > Hi, > > I am using Cygwin 1.7.7  on Windows 7. > > I have installed e2fsprogs-1.41.12 on cygwin. > > I have carved out a 10G partition in my harddisk using windows disk manager. > > My 'cat /proc/partitions' command also lists out my sda2 part

/dev/sda2 - Bad file descriptor error with mkfs.ext4 on cygwin

Hi, I am using Cygwin 1.7.7  on Windows 7. I have installed e2fsprogs-1.41.12 on cygwin. I have carved out a 10G partition in my harddisk using windows disk manager. My 'cat /proc/partitions' command also lists out my sda2 partition, so I am sure that there is sda2 partition with 10G $ cat /pr