Problem when creating new partitions?

Question

I've created a new disk partition by sudo fdisk /dev/xvda1 and the following commands:

1. n
2. p
3. 1
4. Enter
5. Enter
6. w

After, when I want to change the partition system file into xfs by sudo mkfs.xfs -i size=1024 /dev/xvda1p1 I got:

/dev/xvda1p1: Not such file or directory

P.S. : xvda1p1 is the name of the new created partition when I type sudo fdisk -l

I'm following these instructions in order to achieve a tutorial of creating a Swift Cluster.

Thanks.

Answer 1

/dev/xvda1 is a partition. You don't create partitions inside partitions. You wanted fdisk /dev/xvda.

Answer 2

you could install gparted to make it easier. You can find it in the Ubuntu Software Center