[clue] Dumb disk question

[Paul B]

A single big partition would appear as /dev/sdb1 Maybe what you are looking
for is whether or not it has a partition table or whether it ever had data
on it?
On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 4:30 PM foo7775 <foo7775 at comcast.net> wrote:

> 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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