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Trying to mount drives on Arch alarm Pogoplug install....

I got Arch installed on my newly purchased Pogoplug v4. I connected a sata drive and a usb drive and now I'm trying to format, partition and mount them. Admittedly I have not really done this from the command line in any distro yet. What I have done is:

1.

Code:

fdisk -l

, identified my drive (sdb and sdc).
2. Formatted to ext4:

Code:

mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb

3. Created a single primary partition on each drive
4. Created a mount point

Code:

mkdir /pogousb

5. Tried to mount drive into directory:

Code:

mount /dev/sdb1 /pogousb

6. Then I get the following error:

Code:

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc1,

      missing codepage or helper program, or other error



      In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try

      dmesg | tail or so.

What I am I doing wrong?

Swap steps 2) and 3) - and mkfs on the partition, not the (entire) drive - "mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb1". No need to repartition, just mkfs and mount.

Quote:

Originally Posted by syg00 (Post 5145700)

Swap steps 2) and 3) - and mkfs on the partition, not the (entire) drive - "mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb1". No need to repartition, just mkfs and mount.

Thanks! I knew it was something simple/stupid I was doing. That worked like a charm