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My primary HD (sdb) is a SDD (Solid State Drive). I installed and formatted a new 300 GB drive (sda) to ext4.

I am not able to drag an application.run file into the new sda1. Why? Because it need a file system?

I checked to see that it is already mounted.

Below is the result of lsblk

NAME                      MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda                         8:0    0 298.1G  0 disk 
├─sda1                      8:1    0 298.1G  0 part /media/ste/787fbb8c-cad8-4e1f-abc6-6a3802c46047
└─sda2                      8:2    0     9M  0 part /media/ste/ea853a1d-3d86-4e66-92b7-aef405c68bec
sdb                         8:16   0 119.2G  0 disk 
├─sdb1                      8:17   0   243M  0 part /boot 
├─sdb2                      8:18   0     1K  0 part 
└─sdb5                      8:21   0   119G  0 part 
├─ste--vg-root (dm-0)   252:0    0 115.1G  0 lvm  /
└─ste--vg-swap_1 (dm-1) 252:1    0   3.9G  0 lvm  [SWAP]

and sudo blkid

/dev/sda1: UUID="787fbb8c-cad8-4e1f-abc6-6a3802c46047" TYPE="ext4" 
/dev/sda2: UUID="ea853a1d-3d86-4e66-92b7-aef405c68bec" TYPE="ext4" 
/dev/sdb1: UUID="44af5883-ca2a-4285-baef-1f86e7fc5055" TYPE="ext2" 
/dev/sdb5: UUID="plLxEL-v3Ac-MHUu-4gGo-rlox-KR0Q-WSbfxh" TYPE="LVM2_member" 
/dev/mapper/ste--vg-root: UUID="52630c34-4845-471b-8e3b-2b007c057b3b" TYPE="ext4" 
/dev/mapper/ste--vg-swap_1: UUID="db3e1d1a-b535-46be-9569-6af343d8491c" TYPE="swap"
Giacomo1968
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alvin chew
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Have you set a filesystem on the sda1? Setting the partition type via fdisk is only the first part of the setup. The next would be to create a file system. First step should be to make sure that device is not mounted by using umount like this:

sudo umount /media/ste/787fbb8c-cad8-4e1f-abc6-6a3802c46047

Next, create the actual filesystem on the partition. Please note that this will wipe all data on sda1 so please be sure that you are absolutely positive there is no data there before running:

sudo mkfs -t ext4 /dev/sda1

After that is done, you should be able to remount the volume as before.

Giacomo1968
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