Hi, [email protected] wrote: > fdisk shows that the archive drive here is not formatted.
It is not "partitioned". "Formatted" usually applies to medium formatting, e.g. of new BD-RE media, or to filesystem formatting, e.g. by mkfs.ext4. > xorriso : NOTE : Loading ISO image tree from LBA 0 > Media summary: 48 sessions, 4339255 data blocks, 8475m data, 457g free Looks like the content is still a valid multi-session ISO 9660 filesystem. (Multi-session is different from partitioning by all sessions sharing the same block address space, whereas partitions each establish their own block numbering beginning by 0.) > # fdisk /dev/sdd > The device contains 'iso9660' signature and it will be removed by a write > comman > d. See fdisk(8) man page and --wipe option for more details. Smart. Alternatively you could deface the ISO 9660 filesystem by xorriso -outdev stdio:/dev/sdd -blank as_needed or by dd if=/dev/zero bs=64K count=1 of=/dev/sdd It might be necessary to unplug and replug the device or to run something like hdparm -z /dev/sdd to let the system know that the filesystem signature changed. Have a nice day :) Thomas
