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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.<br>
<br>
Thanks for the reply!<br>
<br>
T.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/23/2015 4:34 PM, Paul B wrote:<br>
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type="cite">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?<br>
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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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