how make new partition after instaling of FC2 for /home

[mike_sh]

Hi everybody, I'm new to Linux, so I wiill be grateful if anybody will help me with next problem:

Yesterday I reinstalled my FC2; I made formatting for all partitions that I have except my /home partition.
Or actually I forgot to mark it that it will stay as /home ext3
So now I can't see my data on former /home althougth it is still on harddisk

Through google I found that I can just make a new partition (like /dev/hda6 or something), and add it to /etc/fstab
but when I try to do that with mkfs.ext3 I get next mesage:

root@localhost root]# mkfs.ext3 /dev/hda6
mke2fs 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)
mkfs.ext3: No such device or address while trying to determine filesystem size
[root@localhost root]#

What does it means (did I have to do something before?)???
If you know what do I have to do more, please tell me. THANKS!!!

HERE are my partitions at the moment (the biggest should be /home):

Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 0+ 12 13- 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 2422 2493 72 578340 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda3 13 1860 1848 14844060 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 1861 2421 561 4506232+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 1861+ 2421 561- 4506201 83 Linux
Warning: start=63 - this looks like a partition rather than
the entire disk. Using fdisk on it is probably meaningless.
[Use the --force option if you really want this]
[root@localhost root]#

[codergeek42]

With all due respect, these are Gentoo Discussion Forums, and I think you would get much more help by posting somehere more appropriate, like one of FC2 mailing lists. Thank you, and have a nice day.
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