I have a Maxtor 250gb HDD in an external enclosure (USB) that I'm trying to reformat.
I ran cfdisk /dev/sda to repartition it, and made 2 partitions (a 150gb and a 100gb partition). I then ran mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1, and then tried mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda2. It said sda2 didn't exist or somesuch. I've tried unplugging and replugging the device in, but now it doesn't show up in /dev.
Did I do something wrong in the process? I need to get this sucker back up soon so I can run backups. :/
*edit* here is an excerpt from my logs while I was doing the reformatting..
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Mar 11 13:21:37 murder sshd[18892]: Accepted password for will from ::ffff:192.168.0.76 port 33074 ssh2
Mar 11 13:23:30 murder udev[18932]: removing device node '/dev/sda1'
Mar 11 13:23:30 murder udev[18934]: removing device node '/dev/sda2'
Mar 11 13:23:30 murder udev[18935]: removing device node '/dev/sda3'
Mar 11 13:23:30 murder udev[18939]: removing device node '/dev/sda4'
Mar 11 13:23:30 murder kernel: SCSI device sda: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB)
Mar 11 13:23:30 murder kernel: sda: sda1 sda2
Mar 11 13:23:30 murder udev[18953]: creating device node '/dev/sda1'
Mar 11 13:23:30 murder udev[18958]: creating device node '/dev/sda2'
Mar 11 13:24:20 murder udev[18970]: removing device node '/dev/sda1'
Mar 11 13:24:20 murder udev[18974]: removing device node '/dev/sda2'
Mar 11 13:25:23 murder kernel: SCSI device sda: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB)
Mar 11 13:25:23 murder kernel: sda: sda1 sda2
Mar 11 13:25:23 murder udev[18985]: creating device node '/dev/sda1'
Mar 11 13:25:23 murder udev[18991]: creating device node '/dev/sda2'
Mar 11 13:28:55 murder kernel: usb 1-3: reset high speed USB device using address 2
Mar 11 13:29:12 murder kernel: scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery: host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0
*edit again*
I'm running Slack 10.1 with kernel 2.6.7.
