Mount External USB ext3, But Reverting to fat32
I'd like to mount an external USB drive for full local backups using rsnapshot. This requires a filesystem like ext3 for the hard links in "cp -al" to work. After I prepared my USB drive with fdisk and mkfs.ext3 the drive is still stuck on FAT32 though.
Disto: ClarkConnect 4.x (CentOS equivalent). Code:
# fdisk -l Using fdisk /dev/sdd1 I make a new primary partition, type 83, and write it and get this alert: Code:
The partition table has been altered! |
If it is an external USB drive, I am assuming you tried unplugging it and plugging it back in?
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It's at a remote location, so no, I haven't done that. I'll get someone to cycle the device. Is that considered sufficient for a reboot?
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Fdisk works on a device, meaning you need to run 'fdisk /dev/sdd' to get the desired effect. You're getting an 'invalid argument' error because /dev/sdd1 points to the partition on the disk and not the disk itself.
You should be able get it all done if you drop the 1 there. Also, make sure you're not working on a mounted filesystem. |
Brilliant!
How did I ever get in the bad habit of adding the "1" at the end. So here's the result after running fdisk /dev/sdd and creating the ext3 partition. Code:
Command (m for help): w |
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