[H-GEN] mkfs weirdness...

[Doug South]

Hi all,

I'm getting some weird things happening while trying to mkfs some new
partitions on my Debian etch system.

The drive is 200GB (don't recall the brand off the top of my head, but
I think it is a Seagate) partitioned as such:

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/hda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1               1          61      489951   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda2              62          63       16065   83  Linux
/dev/hda3              64         185      979965   83  Linux

The system works fine with no problems until I try to add new partitions.

The first weird thing that happens is that when I add a new partition
(whether primary or extended) and write and exit, mkfs doesn't see the
changes made to the table until after a reboot. 8(

Then, when I try to create the fs on the new partition, JFS reports:

Log too large, no space for file system.
The specified disk did not finish formatting.

Which seemed a bit odd. So when I try ext3, it works, but the size is
only 3.9M regardless of what size I've partitioned to table to! 8( df
-h reports:

/dev/hda5             3.9M  1.1M  2.7M  28% /mnt/hda5

Any suggestions from the collective?

Regards,
Doug
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