Excerpts from Carlos Mennens's message of Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:11 -0400: > It appears Arch can't find /dev/sdd1 however I can find it fine when I > use the 'fdisk' utility. I don't understand why... You should not fdisk on a partition (like sdd1), only on the whole device e.g. /dev/sdd > [root@tuna ~]# mkfs -t vfat /dev/sdd1 > mkfs.vfat 3.0.9 (31 Jan 2010) > /dev/sdd1: No such file or directory Nowadays some USB drives are not partitioned, so maybe you indeed have no /dev/sdd1, but just /dev/sdd - you can use the whole drive to create a file system, but I'd recommend to create a partition with fdisk first. Also "mkfs.vfat -n ocz_usb /dev/hdd1" will put the label right away. > When I look under the /dev/ directory, I don't see sda sdb sdc or sdd. That's strange, but by the way, how do you look into it? What is output of "ls -l /dev/sd*" ? Cheers, Serg1
