[clue] Dumb disk question

[foo7775]

Hey all, first off, I am _very_ aware that this is a painfully-basic 
question, but this has been a rough week, so please bear with me...

   I've been searching for this info for a while now, but my very-tired 
brain doesn't appear to be able to format the search terms 
appropriately.  What I'm wanting to do is to confirm that a defined disk 
(/dev/sdb in this case) is essentially "a raw partition" & doesn't have 
any data on it.  If I can confirm that, then I can create the needed 
partitions/filesystems & turn it over to the customer.  The 'fdisk' 
utility shows me this:

Disk /dev/sdb: 214.7 GB, 214748364800 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 26108 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

    Now I can tell that it doesn't contain any partitions on it (i.e. 
sdb1, sdb2, etc.), but I just can't seem to remember how to confirm that 
it isn't formatted as a single big partition.  I'd be grateful if 
someone could refresh my memory on this...

Thanks,

T.


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