Re: help with mkpart

[Andrew Clausen]

Karl Krasnowsky wrote:
> 
> New guy here,
> I'm attempting to create a partition on my secondary drive. I removed
> all previously formatted partitions as they were no longer needed.
> Now if I issue the command:
> mkpart logical ext2 0 1000

Do you have an extended partition?

No error message as well?

(Perhaps you could do:  (parted) print, and send it in?  Thanks.)

> and parted simply blurts back the list of commands, presumably because
> it can't interpret the command line I'm sending it. I believe I'm
> passing the parameters it's asking for, but there must be something I'm
> not getting. Can anyone give me a hand?
> appreciate any information on this,

Well, it looks like you want "primary" instead of "logical".  That
said, Parted should give you a nice error message...

Thanks,
Andrew Clausen