On 03/02/2018 10:24 PM, Grant Taylor wrote: > On 03/02/2018 10:17 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >> I've tried: >> fsck.vfat -v -a -w /dev/sdb1 >> fsck.fat 4.0 (2016-05-06) >> open: No such file or directory >> >> This doesn't work either: >> fdisk /dev/sdb >> >> Welcome to fdisk (util-linux 2.28.2). >> Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them. >> Be careful before using the write command. >> >> fdisk: cannot open /dev/sdb: No such file or directory > > I think that the "No such file or directory" is quite literally telling > you that you don't have a /dev/sdb (device) file. > > Please try "ls -l /dev/sd*" > > I'm sort of guessing that you're missing the device nodes. Without > them, fsck and fdisk won't be able to work.
No, my system is not recognizing "sdb" ls -l /dev/sd* brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 0 Dec 31 17:20 /dev/sda brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 Dec 31 17:20 /dev/sda1 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 2 Dec 31 17:20 /dev/sda2 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 3 Dec 31 17:20 /dev/sda3 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 4 Dec 31 17:20 /dev/sda4 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 5 Dec 31 17:20 /dev/sda5 I've try to connect that box to another system and same thing: ls -l /dev/sd* brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 0 Mar 2 22:31 /dev/sda brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 Mar 2 22:31 /dev/sda1 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 2 Mar 2 22:31 /dev/sda2 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 3 Mar 2 22:31 /dev/sda3 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 4 Mar 2 22:31 /dev/sda4