On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Mikkel <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 12/20/2009 06:46 PM, Marcel Rieux wrote: >> >> If you remember well, I said I formatted the drive by right clicking >> on the icon. If you format sdb, an sdb1 partition will be created. If >> you don't have a partition, the drive can't be used. >> > You can format a drive without a partition table, and still > format/use it. I am not sure if it would get automatically mounted, > but it does work. A partition table, and partition will NOT be > created for you. Also, you can have a drive with one partition > without that partition being partition 1. ZIP disks were famous for > this. For a log time, DOS formatted ZIP disks used partition 4. > >> The man page does say: >> >> e2fsck - check a Linux ext2/ext3/ext4 file system >> >> A file system is not a device. So, the filesystem -- here sdb1 -- must >> be specified. Note: I answered Bill Davidsen first. > You > can use an entire drive, or a partition on a drive, as a tar > archive. (tar -cvf /dev/sdb /home/mikkel) Then, I have no idea where the /sdb1 partition comes from. I also have a lost and found directory on that drive. Here's an ls: ls -al /media/BK/ total 208 drwx------. 5 marcel marcel 4096 2009-12-20 20:58 . drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 4096 2009-12-20 22:07 .. drwx------. 2 root root 16384 2009-11-25 02:06 lost+found drwxrwxr-x. 16 marcel marcel 4096 2009-12-18 00:53 bk -rw-rw-r--. 1 marcel marcel 172509 2009-12-20 20:58 screenshot_pref_applications_firefox.jpg drwx------. 4 marcel marcel 4096 2009-12-10 01:58 .Trash-500 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
