[ILUG] mkfs.ext2 problem...

[David Neary]

Hi all,

Thanks for all the help with the "linux from scratch" question...The LFS
HOWTO (which I never knew about before) was (almost) exactly what I was
looking for. Anyway, I've run into a wee problem at stage 1 :)

I set up the partitions I plan to use for this, and set about making ext2
partitions to use. After trying to make them, I've run into some wee
problems. Below is the (rather terse) error message that comes back from
mke2fs (no problems with fdisk in making the partitions at all). Any ideas
what might be wrong? I've also tried (just in case some blocks were
muddled with old stuff) dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdc2, and got "No room on
device" or some such back. I've tagged on the partition table too for
perusal...turns out I have a little more than a gig free :)

Thanks,
Dave.

[root at localhost /root]# mke2fs /dev/hdc2 
mke2fs 1.15, 18-Jul-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
/dev/hdc2: Invalid argument passed to ext2 library while setting up
superblock

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/hdc: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 4092 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdc1   *         1        33     16600+  83  Linux
/dev/hdc2            34       643    307440   83  Linux
/dev/hdc3           644      4092   1738296    5  Extended
/dev/hdc5           644      1659    512032+  83  Linux
/dev/hdc6          1660      1920    131512+  82  Linux swap
/dev/hdc7          1921      3546    819472+  83  Linux
/dev/hdc8          3547      4092    275152+  83  Linux