you know..... I should have realized the problem was that I had to run it as a super usser :-)~MIKE~(-:
On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Matt Graham <[email protected]>wrote: > > On Jul 5, 2013 10:54 AM, "Michael Havens" wrote: > >> $ mke2fs -j -L MY_BACKUPS /dev/sdc > >> /dev/sdc is entire device, not just one partition! > >> Proceed anyway? (y,n) y > >> /dev/sdc is mounted; will not make a filesystem here! > From: Stephen > > Do you have any partitions on sdc? Ice sdc1 vs sdc2 ect > > It's obvious from the error message that there isn't a partition table on > the > device, since /dev/sdc is *mounted*. > > >> bmike1@PresarioLapTop1:/home$ sudo umount /dev/sdc > >> bmike1@PresarioLapTop1:/home$ mke2fs -j -L MY_BACKUPS /dev/sdc > >> mke2fs: Permission denied while trying to determine filesystem size > >> so what is wrong? > > Your user probably doesn't have permissions to read or write to /dev/sdc, > so > you'll have to run the mke2fs command as root if you want to remake the > filesystem. Users don't usually have direct read/write access to disk > devices, because if they had that access, they could bypass/change the > permissions system and the filesystem. > > My first message said "if it already has a filesystem on it, you can do > "tune2fs -L A_NEW_LABEL /dev/whatever". You should be able to run tune2fs > on > a mounted filesystem as well. Did you not see that part of the message? > Well, a lot of people appear to only skim the first paragraph of things.... > > -- > Matt G / Dances With Crows > The Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress/ > There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >
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