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Generally, you need to mount something like /dev/sdb1 rather than /dev/sdb. /dev/sdb is the physical disk, while the partitions are the entries that are numbered.
Have you taken a look with parted with the argument /dev/sdb to make sure that you have the disk partitioned?
Generally, you need to mount something like /dev/sdb1 rather than /dev/sdb. /dev/sdb is the physical disk, while the partitions are the entries that are numbered.
Have you taken a look with parted to make sure that you have the disk partitioned?
When I installed Arch I made partions sda1,2,and 3. When the usb is not in sdb is not on lsblk. What do I need to do with gparted to make sure sdb is partitioned? I'm not sure I understand your question :/
If there isn't a partition with a filesystem on the USB drive, you won't be able to use it.
The physical drive is listed as a block device, but you can't mount a disk even though you can use something like dd to write a disk image to the physical device itself. You can only mount a filesystem that resides on a partition on a disk.
If there isn't a partition with a filesystem on the USB drive, you won't be able to use it.
The physical drive is listed as a block device, but you can't mount a disk even though you can use something like dd to write a disk image to the physical device itself. You can only mount a filesystem that resides on a partition on a disk.
So what do I need to do on gparted to make the USB usable?
Make a partition. Then, format the partition with a file system. And you should be good to go.
You might want to use gparted, parted, cfdisk or fdisk. I don't know exactly what you have available on your system. gparted is the most GUI option. I'd show you what it looked like, but I don't have it installed
Technically partitioning a drive is not a requirement. You can format the entire Drive if desired. I have a few imation USB drives that are not partitioned. If the drive does not have any data that needs to be recovered just use gparted to create a partition and format as desired.
udisks does all the work on mounting a filesystem. If there is no filesystem udisks can not work. You will have to create a partition and format it with a filesystem of your choice to enable udisks to do the work.
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