Cannot access /dev/sdb1

Karl F. Larsen klarsen1 at gmail.com
Sat Aug 8 14:16:48 UTC 2009


ahartman wrote:
> Paul Sladen wrote:
>> On Sat, 8 Aug 2009, ahartman wrote:
>>> I fornatted sdb1 as EXT3 but i can't access it with filemanager.
>> Can you paste the output of:
>>
>>   sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb
>>
>> (-l means to list the partitions).
>>
>> 	-Paul
> 
> Following is the output as requested:
> 
>> usr7 at ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb
>>
>> Disk /dev/sdb: 15.0 GB, 15020457984 bytes
>> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1826 cylinders
>> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>> Disk identifier: 0xcccdcccd
>>
>>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>> /dev/sdb1   *           1        1826    14667313+  83  Linux
>> usr7 at ubuntu:~$ 
> 
> 
> 
OK it sure looks like it should be a Linux partition with Id=83. It
appears that /dev/sdb1 has all 15GB of the hard disk.

Is this what you want?


Karl


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