I have a CentOS system that has 508 G free space.
I want to create a new partition from it.
It locates in extended partition.
I create new partition and format it as anything (ext4, fat32), after apply it can't finish the process and gives me this error:
An error occurred while applying the operations
See the details for more information.
IMPORTANT
If you want support, you need to provide the saved details!
See http://gparted.sourceforge.net/larry/tips/save_details.htm for more information.
and when I save the save_details.htm it contains this information:
GParted 0.6.0
Libparted 2.1
Create Logical Partition #1 (fat32, 508.23 GiB) on /dev/sda 00:00:01 ( ERROR )
calibrate New Partition #1 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS )
path: /dev/sda-1
start: 184424448
end: 1250263039
size: 1065838592 (508.23 GiB)
create empty partition 00:00:01 ( ERROR )
libparted messages ( INFO )
WARNING: the kernel failed to re-read the partition table on /dev/sda (Device or resource busy). As a result, it may not reflect all of your changes until after reboot.
WARNING: the kernel failed to re-read the partition table on /dev/sda (Device or resource busy). As a result, it may not reflect all of your changes until after reboot.
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I used fdisk and created /dev/sda6, and I see partitions like this:
$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 640.1 GB, 640135028736 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77825 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xa62a8bc3
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 262 2097152 83 Linux
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 262 5361 40960000 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 5361 10460 40960000 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 10460 77826 541113344 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 10461 11480 8192000 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 11480 77825 532917056+ 83 Linux
Partition 6 does not start on physical sector boundary.
but when I use mkfs to format it I see this error:
$ sudo mkfs -t ext4 /dev/sda6
mke2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
Could not stat /dev/sda6 --- No such file or directory
The device apparently does not exist; did you specify it correctly?
What is the problem?
$sudo dumpe2fs -h /dev/sda6gets this:dumpe2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010) dumpe2fs: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sda6 Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock.