> On Jul 5, 2013 10:54 AM, "Michael Havens" wrote:
>> $ mke2fs -j -L MY_BACKUPS /dev/sdc
>> /dev/sdc is entire device, not just one partition!
>> Proceed anyway? (y,n) y
>> /dev/sdc is mounted; will not make a filesystem here!
From: Stephen
> Do you have any partitions on sdc? Ice sdc1 vs sdc2 ect

It's obvious from the error message that there isn't a partition table on the
device, since /dev/sdc is *mounted*.

>> bmike1@PresarioLapTop1:/home$ sudo umount /dev/sdc
>> bmike1@PresarioLapTop1:/home$ mke2fs -j -L MY_BACKUPS /dev/sdc
>> mke2fs: Permission denied while trying to determine filesystem size
>> so what is wrong?

Your user probably doesn't have permissions to read or write to /dev/sdc, so
you'll have to run the mke2fs command as root if you want to remake the
filesystem.  Users don't usually have direct read/write access to disk
devices, because if they had that access, they could bypass/change the
permissions system and the filesystem.

My first message said "if it already has a filesystem on it, you can do
"tune2fs -L A_NEW_LABEL /dev/whatever".  You should be able to run tune2fs on
a mounted filesystem as well.  Did you not see that part of the message? 
Well, a lot of people appear to only skim the first paragraph of things....

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