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Re: Permission issues - operator error?

From	Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Permission issues - operator error?
Date	2018-09-23 16:20 +0200
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On 09/23/2018 08:26 AM, Tom Furie wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 23, 2018 at 08:20:10AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> 
>> root@debian8-6:/home/richard# # purge device
>> root@debian8-6:/home/richard# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=4M
> 
>> root@debian8-6:/home/richard# # force UID/GID to 'richard', label device,
>> accept standard defaults
>> root@debian8-6:/home/richard# mkfs.ext4 root_owner=1000:1000 -L
>> 2018Sept23tst1 /dev/sdb1
>> mke2fs 1.42.12 (29-Aug-2014)
>> mkfs.ext4: invalid blocks '/dev/sdb1' on device 'root_owner=1000:1000'
> 
>> root@debian8-6:/home/richard# # is all ok
>> root@debian8-6:/home/richard# e2fsck -fy /dev/sdb1
>> e2fsck 1.42.12 (29-Aug-2014)
>> e2fsck: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/sdb1
>> Possibly non-existent device?
> 
>> root@debian8-6:/home/richard# # create partition table with Gparted
>> root@debian8-6:/home/richard# mkfs.ext4 root_owner=1000:1000 -L
>> 2018Sept23tst1 /dev/sdb1
>> mke2fs 1.42.12 (29-Aug-2014)
>> mkfs.ext4: invalid blocks '/dev/sdb1' on device 'root_owner=1000:1000'
>> root@debian8-6:/home/richard# e2fsck -fy /dev/sdb1
>> e2fsck 1.42.12 (29-Aug-2014)
>> e2fsck: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/sdb1
>> Possibly non-existent device?
> 
> You have overwritten the whole sdb device with zeros, including the
> partition table. You'll have to recreate your partitions before you can
> create filesystems on them.
> 
> Cheers,
> Tom
> 

I had thought I had created a partition table with Gparted.
It had not reported any error.
I was able to use it to create ext4 partition.

root@debian8-6:/home/richard# e2fsck -fy /dev/sdb1
e2fsck 1.42.12 (29-Aug-2014)
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
testagain: 11/1970416 files (0.0% non-contiguous), 167682/7870208 blocks
root@debian8-6:/home/richard#

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Permission issues - operator error? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-09-22 15:40 +0200
  Re: Permission issues - operator error? Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2018-09-22 16:00 +0200
    Re: Permission issues - operator error? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-09-22 16:30 +0200
      Re: Permission issues - operator error? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-09-22 22:50 +0200
        Re: Permission issues - operator error? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-09-23 02:40 +0200
          Re: Permission issues - operator error? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-09-23 05:00 +0200
            Re: Permission issues - operator error? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-09-23 11:30 +0200
              Re: Permission issues - operator error? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-09-23 15:30 +0200
                Re: Permission issues - operator error? Tom Furie <tom@furie.org.uk> - 2018-09-23 15:50 +0200
                Re: Permission issues - operator error? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-09-23 16:20 +0200
                Re: Permission issues - operator error? Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2018-09-23 17:40 +0200
                Re: Permission issues - operator error? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-09-23 20:20 +0200
                Re: Permission issues - operator error? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-09-23 20:40 +0200
                Re: Permission issues - operator error? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-09-23 20:40 +0200
                Re: Permission issues - operator error? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-09-24 03:40 +0200
                Re: Permission issues - operator error? Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2018-09-23 21:10 +0200
                Re: Permission issues - operator error? Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2018-09-24 05:10 +0200
  Underlying problems - was [Re: Permission issues - operator error?] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-09-24 18:40 +0200

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