In looking at the process listing on a linux server, an administrator may see a process listed as “sshd: root@notty”. An administrator, even a seasoned one, may immediately wonder “what is this ‘notty’ host?” and start down the path of trying to determine what host that is.
However, sit back and take a deep breath: “notty” means “NO TTY”. In other words, there is no TTY associated to the process, which means that the process was initiated remotely. In this case, a non-interactive process was initiated remotely over SSH.
If a drives has a GPT (GUID Parition Table) on it, Windows 7 and Linux will happily use it. HOWEVER, all of the add-on tools to format a partition on that drive as fat32 (for those that are using large drives) do not understand that partition table type.
This comes up every now and then, and it is one of those commands that is hard to remember. There are a number of ways to do this, but this one is easy. It has to be run by root, though.