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I wasn't given a specification of what filesystem is expected, so
I'm planning on applying ext4, which is consistent with the
already-defined filesystems. The question that I have is whether
there's a filesystem on /dev/sdb at all...<br>
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Thanks for the reply!<br>
<br>
T.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/23/2015 4:35 PM, Dan Kulinski
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<div dir="ltr">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.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 4:30 PM,
foo7775 <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> 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...<br>
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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:<br>
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<font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11pt">
<div><font color="#002060">Disk /dev/sdb: 214.7 GB,
214748364800 bytes</font></div>
<div><font color="#002060">255 heads, 63
sectors/track, 26108 cylinders</font></div>
<div><font color="#002060">Units = cylinders of 16065
* 512 = 8225280 bytes</font></div>
<div><font color="#002060">Sector size
(logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes</font></div>
<div><font color="#002060">I/O size (minimum/optimal):
512 bytes / 512 bytes</font></div>
<div><font color="#002060">Disk identifier: 0x00000000</font></div>
</span></font><br>
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...<br>
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Thanks,<br>
<br>
T.<br>
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