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MKFS issues in Oracle Linux 7

edited Dec 7, 2018 4:01AM in Linux Operating System (MOSC) 1 commentAnswered

I am trying to partition a disk and create a file system and mount it.

Linux 7
New VM

I have a disk, 500GB, attached.

Created 2 partitions primary and extended.

Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System

/dev/sde1            2048   524287999   262142976   83  Linux

/dev/sde2       524288000  1048575999   262144000    5  Extended

Created a file system and mounted it to a mount point /dev/sde1. 1st partition.
Command used to create file system.

mkfs -t ext4 /dev/sde1

worked fine.e

Now I am trying to create a file system on the extended partition /dev/sde2
It errors out

#partprobe

[# mkfs -t ext4 /dev/sde2

mke2fs 1.42.9 (28-Dec-2013)

mkfs.ext4: inode_size (128) * inodes_count (0) too big for a

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