Hi Alll....I have a small problem here...well i wanted to make new partiton in shell command enviroment...I did manage to make the partition but when tried to activate the ext2 with mke2fs command an error with a message "invalid argument passed to ext2 library while setting up superblock"..so can anybody please help me eith this issue....thanx u all advance for the support given to me

ok, i presume you used fdisk, right? Did you remember to type 'w' to write the new partition table?

What exact command did you run to format the partition? i know the command you ran, but not the whole line.