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From: Grant Taylor <gtaylor@×××××××××××××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] repair FAT-fs
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2018 05:23:56
Message-Id: 1bd7eeeb-167a-1cc1-dce1-910e26e527c7@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] repair FAT-fs by thelma@sys-concept.com
1 On 03/02/2018 10:17 PM, thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote:
2 > I've tried:
3 > fsck.vfat -v -a -w /dev/sdb1
4 > fsck.fat 4.0 (2016-05-06)
5 > open: No such file or directory
6 >
7 > This doesn't work either:
8 > fdisk /dev/sdb
9 >
10 > Welcome to fdisk (util-linux 2.28.2).
11 > Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them.
12 > Be careful before using the write command.
13 >
14 > fdisk: cannot open /dev/sdb: No such file or directory
15
16 I think that the "No such file or directory" is quite literally telling
17 you that you don't have a /dev/sdb (device) file.
18
19 Please try "ls -l /dev/sd*"
20
21 I'm sort of guessing that you're missing the device nodes. Without
22 them, fsck and fdisk won't be able to work.
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26 --
27 Grant. . . .
28 unix || die

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