Marcel Rieux wrote:
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
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.
Whatever gave you that idea?
As I said, I right clicked on the drive, chose Format and now there's
an sdb1 partition and no other. I never created it otherwise.
I assume "right click" implies you did this with some GUI tool which did what it
thought you should do instead of what you asked it to do. I have no experience
using such, and what experience I have with others using them is only when
people ask "what did this do?" When it works I don't hear about it. ;-)
Can't really help with GUI tools, sorry.
A file system is on a device, partitions are devices too. Try "ls -l
/dev/sda*" and look at the first letter, all block devices.
You're right, my hasty extrapolations were wrong. But I don't believe
you can get a Flash drive working that will be listed only as /dev/sdb
any more than you can have a HD working with only /dev/sda. I have no
idea about arrays, I'm talking about standard desktops with one drive.
Or, so do I think, cause I've always created / and /home partitions with Linux.
As I'm sure others will tell you, sure you can.
mke2fs /dev/sdb
{tell it yes, do what you asked}
mkdir -p /tmp/sdb && mount /dev/sdb /tmp/sdb
df
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