[clue] Dumb disk question

[foo7775]

Yeah, if I can see if it already has a partition table on it, that would 
seem to confirm that it's already had a filesystem laid down on it...  
And thanks for the /dev/sdb1 confirmation - I'd *thought* that was 
probably the case, but wasn't comfortable enough with that recollection 
to be really sure about it.

Thanks for the reply!

T.

On 10/23/2015 4:34 PM, Paul B wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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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