Error trying to mount

Snickertastic

I am trying to partition and mount a hard drive onto my /hdd folder to use. Every time I try mounting it I get,

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sdb1
mke2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
mkfs.ext3: inode_size (128) * inodes_count (0) too big for a
filesystem with 0 blocks, specify higher inode_ratio (-i)
or lower inode count (-N).

[10:45:01 AM] FANTA: I am trying to partition and mount a hard drive onto my /hdd folder to use. Every time I try mounting it I get,

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

And when I try making a ext3 filesystem i get

[[email protected] /]# mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sdb1
mke2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
mkfs.ext3: inode_size (128) * inodes_count (0) too big for a
filesystem with 0 blocks, specify higher inode_ratio (-i)
or lower inode count (-N).

xset

m1724, dedicated? fdisk -l /dev/sdb

Snickertastic

[email protected] /]# fdisk -l /dev/sdb

Disk /dev/sdb: 2995.7 GB, 2995729203200 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 364209 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x300aefe4

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 267349 2147480811 5 Extended

prae5

hard to tell from the formatting, but doesn't look like you have a valid partition on the disk

Snickertastic

Is there away to reformat that drive without reformatting the server ?

jh

If you just want 1 partition you can just do "mkfs"

xset

@snuckertastic try to remove the partition and create it as primary partition, reboot and mkfs then

twain

3TB drive? fdisk can't handle larger than 2TB partitions.. you need to use parted and GPT partition table.

Maounique

gdisk will work just fine.