Cannot access /dev/sdb1

[Siggy Brentrup]

On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 18:44 +0300, ahartman wrote:
> Siggy Brentrup wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 16:38 +0300, 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:~$ 
> > 
> > This looks quite normal to me, can you show us
> > 
> > # grep ' sd' /var/log/dmesg
> > 
> > please
> > 
> >   Siggy
> > 
> usr7 at ubuntu:~$ sudo grep ' sd' /var/log/dmesg
[snip]
> [    4.323903]  sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 >
[snip]
> [    4.353124]  sdb: sdb1
[snip]
> [   18.159985] EXT3 FS on sda1, internal journal
> usr7 at ubuntu:~$

There seems to be no FS on sdb1, setting partition type 83
only says 'this partition will eventually carry a Linux FS'.
You still have to create one, did you
  mkfs /dev/sdb1 ?
If not, we've found your problem.  Lookup the syntax for
creating ext3 FS yourself, I'm using only XFS.

HTH
  Siggy
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