Hello, On Sun, Sep 23, 2018 at 01:18:25PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Is this not creating a partition? > >root@debian8-6:/home/richard# mkfs.ext4 root_owner=1000:1000 -L > >2018Sept23tst1 /dev/sdb1 > >mke2fs 1.42.12 (29-Aug-2014)
Nope. The error you got from this command is consistent with /dev/sdb1 not existing. Because you did not create that partition first. The mkfs commands create a filesystem on an existing block device. That device could be a partition, whole disk or even a loopback file. mkfs doesn't create the device itself. Try using fdisk or similar, if you are looking for a command line partition editor. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting