you know..... I should have realized the problem was that I had to run it as a super usser<br clear="all"><div>:-)~MIKE~(-:</div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Matt Graham <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danceswithcrows@usa.net" target="_blank">danceswithcrows@usa.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">> On Jul 5, 2013 10:54 AM, "Michael Havens" wrote:<br>
>> $ mke2fs -j -L MY_BACKUPS /dev/sdc<br>
</div><div class="im">>> /dev/sdc is entire device, not just one partition!<br>
>> Proceed anyway? (y,n) y<br>
>> /dev/sdc is mounted; will not make a filesystem here!<br>
</div>From: Stephen<br>
<div class="im">> Do you have any partitions on sdc? Ice sdc1 vs sdc2 ect<br>
<br>
</div>It's obvious from the error message that there isn't a partition table on the<br>
device, since /dev/sdc is *mounted*.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
>> bmike1@PresarioLapTop1:/home$ sudo umount /dev/sdc<br>
>> bmike1@PresarioLapTop1:/home$ mke2fs -j -L MY_BACKUPS /dev/sdc<br>
</div><div class="im">>> mke2fs: Permission denied while trying to determine filesystem size<br>
</div>>> so what is wrong?<br>
<br>
Your user probably doesn't have permissions to read or write to /dev/sdc, so<br>
you'll have to run the mke2fs command as root if you want to remake the<br>
filesystem. Users don't usually have direct read/write access to disk<br>
devices, because if they had that access, they could bypass/change the<br>
permissions system and the filesystem.<br>
<br>
My first message said "if it already has a filesystem on it, you can do<br>
"tune2fs -L A_NEW_LABEL /dev/whatever". You should be able to run tune2fs on<br>
a mounted filesystem as well. Did you not see that part of the message?<br>
Well, a lot of people appear to only skim the first paragraph of things....<br>
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