On Thursday 24 October 2024 14:11:12 BST syscon edm wrote: > Yes, you are right. > doing "mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1" worked, but I could only manually mount, > for automount it has to be entire partition "mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda"
If you want to run "mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1" then first you must create a partition label (e.g DOS, GPT) and add a partition on the device using fdisk, parted, etc. The mkfs command will error out complaining about /dev/sda1 not found or something like that. If the device has no partitions on it, then "mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda" is what you have to run. It will format an ext4 fs on the whole device, like a floppy disk.
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