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Crap, I saw that earlier this week... <facepalms><br>
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Thanks Dan, I appreciate it.<br>
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T.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/23/2015 4:39 PM, Dan Kulinski
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<div dir="ltr">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!</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 4:35 PM, Dan
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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 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>
<br>
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>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
T.<br>
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