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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 15:30 +0200
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On 09/23/2018 04:18 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 09/22/2018 09:57 PM, David Christensen wrote:
>> On 9/22/18 5:30 PM, Richard Owlett wrote:
[snip]
>> Command-line interfaces and console sessions work the best for mailing 
>> lists.
> 
> Yes. They also work well for proving operator problems ;/
>>[snip]

This is my initial try. Going out in a few minutes.
What is my error?

richard@debian8-6:~$ su
Password:
root@debian8-6:/home/richard# # purge device
root@debian8-6:/home/richard# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=4M
dd: error writing ‘/dev/sdb’: No space left on device
7687+0 records in
7686+0 records out
32237420544 bytes (32 GB) copied, 2656.09 s, 12.1 MB/s
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#
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?
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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