FIXED:Re: "/dev/sda1 does not exist" Why????

Steven Pasternak stevenp500 at bellsouth.net
Wed Jan 19 22:59:23 UTC 2005


On Wednesday 19 January 2005 16:47, dan wrote:
> Steven Pasternak wrote:
> >I use FC3 kernel 2.6.9-1.667 and when I plug my USB pen drive in and 
> > click on the kde icon I made it says that "/dev/sda1 doesn't exist". If I
> > open a super user terminal and go to /dev and type 'MAKEDEV sda1' it
> > makes it, but says it doesn't say that it is a valid block device. WHY??
>
> Perhaps this KDE utility needs configuring?  Is it pointing to the
> location of the actual device?  If you run 'mount', does it show
> anything about your thumb drive already being mounted to a different
> mount point?
>
> Thanks
> -dant

Actually, the actual device '/dev/sda1' didn't exist. I found out that after 
rebooting and plugging the device in that it made the device AFTER I plugged 
it in. Isn't that weird? Oh well, it works now.




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