[clue] Dumb disk question

Dan Kulinski daniel at kulinski.net
Fri Oct 23 16:35:07 MDT 2015


Do you know what type of file system it is supposed to be?  If there is no
partition table then the file system should be taking up the whole device.
The way you limit the size of a file system, generally, is to create a
partition.

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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