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Thanks Vishal - I knew about the 'fdisk -l' (which produced the
output that I posted), but I haven't used the 'blkid' command, so
thank you for "adding that to my tool box"!<br>
<br>
T.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/23/2015 4:41 PM, Vishal Verma
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<div dir="ltr"># fdisk -l <dev> will show if there are any
partitions on that disk - in your case there don't appear to be
any.
<div># blkid <dev> will show you what (if any) file system
is on that disk.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 4:39 PM, Dan
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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 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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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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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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