Just bought a new external drive. Plugged it in, erased current partition using fdisk and created a new extended partition using fdisk. Used all the defaults for start and end blocks:
I then try to format the new partition using the following:
sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb1
However, I received the following error:
mke2fs 1.42 (29-Nov-2011)
/dev/sdb1: Not enough space to build proposed filesystem while setting up superblock
Any ideas what could be wrong? Should I have created a primary partition? If so, why?
mkfs
for that disk.