USB Drives

[GeraldCC]

On Sunday, January 23, 2011 11:56:20 am Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Saturday, January 22, 2011, GeraldCC wrote:
> > Hi Guys,
> > I had a usb drive (160GB) connected to a machine running KUbuntu 10.10!!
> > It was formatted as NTFS. I copied the data from it then went to format
> > it to ext4.
> > This I could not do because it was mounted!!!! So I unmounted it and
> > tried again, but this time the drive did not exist so I could not format
> > it. Could you please explain in simple language so a 74 YO can
> > understand how to format a usn device?
> > Gerald
> 
> The device should be given a /dev/xxx  name when it is plugged into the USB
> port.
> 
> Such as  /dev/sdg1
> 
> do a   tail /var/log/message
> 
> right after plugging in to find out what the /dev/ is.
> 
> Then  mkfs.ext4   /dev/sdg1     (or whatever)
Hi...
Thanks for that, I did not unplug the usb device.
I just unmounted the drive then tried to format it.
Big slap on hand.
Thanks,
Gerald