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 <danceswithcrows@usa.net>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....
>
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