[clue] Dumb disk question

[foo7775]

Crap, I saw that earlier this week...  <facepalms>

Thanks Dan, I appreciate it.

T.

On 10/23/2015 4:39 PM, Dan Kulinski wrote:
> If you do want to see if there is a file system directly on the block 
> device, try file -s /dev/sdb.  This will look for the magic number in 
> common locations.  I just learned this because I knew how the file 
> command worked on files and wondered if it knew about file systems.  
> Sure enough, it does!
>
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 4:35 PM, Dan Kulinski <daniel at kulinski.net 
> <mailto:daniel at kulinski.net>> wrote:
>
>     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
>     <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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