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[sassy2009]

Hi all,

im trying to mount a SATA drive. I have a drive already connected to the system as /dev/sda1. The second drive that i have connected now should be /dev/sdb if im not wrong. I havent formatted this drive so it shows up on the desktop as mass storage. So i wanted to format this drive to EXT2.I tried the "sudo fdisk dev/sdb". It says unable to open dev/sdb. I tried with GPARTED and formatting the sdb and it works. Why cant i format this drive with fdisk command???

[sicarie]

If you're writing that exactly as you're typing it, then you're missing the leading slash / for the 'absolute' path name (path from the root dir). The computer things you're doing the 'relative' path name and is looking in the current directory for a folder named dev/sdb - which is why it cannot open it.

I would recommend using gparted as the fdisk wikipedia page suggests it over many of fdisks limitations.

[Nepomuk]

A small addition: if you're looking for a command line tool that has the power of gparted, try

parted /dev/sdb

It has the same backend as gparted.

Greetings,
Nepomuk

[sassy2009]

mount device

Thanks for your reply guys.

sudo mount -t ext2 /dev/sdb1 /mnt

and this worked.