I'm trying to create partitions and file systems on a little 32 meg Sony memory stick that is connected through a USB port.

I used fdisk to create two partitions on /dev/sda1:

/dev/sda1p1
/dev/sda1p2

fdisk does show that these partitions have been created. I assume that this only creates partitions, not file systems.

When I try

mke2fs /dev/sda1p1

I get the response "no such file or directory".

I can

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb1

but I want to mount each partition to separate mount points. (How can I mount /mnt/usb1 when I thought there was no file system there?)

How do I create file systems on each of these 2 partitions and then mount them?

Thanks,

Steve

Are you sure you fdisk'd them? It doesn't appear that you did a successful fdisk. Why?

1. Like you just said, you were able to mount
2. You should not be able to mount /mnt/sda1 but only sda1p1/sda1p2.

Use fdisk again and look at the partitions you created. Do you see them there?


-twantrd

The p1 and p2 would seem to be a problem. Try it with :
mke2fs /dev/sda1 and mke2fs /dev/sda2

You are right. This was a problem I had yesterday. I looked at it again today and did not see the partitions I thought I created yesterday.

I did fdisk again and it worked. The only difference this time is that I first deleted a FAT partition that was already there - that I didn't notice yesterday. Then everything worked.

Thanks again,

Ed