Re: fdisk issues - external drive.
On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 17:09 -0600, Kevin Kempter wrote: I have a new Lacie 1TB external drive. When I plug it in via USB or eSATA cable it's instantly recognized by Fedora. However I want the drive to contain an ext3 filesystem. So I do this: 1) # fsisk device You ran fdisk on /dev/sdc1 - that's a partition, not the whole disk device. Try running it on /dev/sdc instead. Disk /dev/sdc1: 10 MB, 10484736 bytes This shows fdisk is operating on the partition sdc1, not the whole disk (sdc). You want to see something like this instead: # fdisk /dev/sdc Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sdc: 65 MB, 65517568 bytes 3 heads, 42 sectors/track, 1015 cylinders Units = cylinders of 126 * 512 = 64512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdc1 11015 63924 83 Linux Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdc1p1 1 1 8001 83 Linux Again, you're getting this funny sdc1p1 naming style because you are creating a nested partition table (partitioning a partition) rather than partitioning the whole disk device. Regards, Bryn. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: fdisk issues - external drive.
On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 11:16 +1200, Clint Dilks wrote: I think FDisk is known to have issues with a single partition of this size. Try using parted to partition the disk instead. That's not true - it's a limitation of the MSDOS partition table format, not fdisk. The MBR partition table format cannot support devices or partitions 2TiB in size due to the representation used for partition offsets but since this disk is only 1TiB in size there isn't a problem here. For devices that do exceed the 2TiB limit you should use the GPT disk label which is supported by parted. Regards, Bryn. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
fdisk issues - external drive.
Hi All; I'm running Fedora 10 KDE 4.2 I have a new Lacie 1TB external drive. When I plug it in via USB or eSATA cable it's instantly recognized by Fedora. However I want the drive to contain an ext3 filesystem. So I do this: 1) # fsisk device 2) delete all existing partitions 3) create a new primary partition 4) I'm prompted for the partition number - I choose 1 5) Im prompted for the First cylinder - again I choose 1 then Fdisk goes back to the main menu, I'm never prompted for the size. If I print the partition table I see this: Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sdc1: 10 MB, 10484736 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x73736572 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdc1p1 1 18001 83 Linux Start and end both at 1 I suspect is wrong. How do I make fdisk change the ending value so the size is the full size of my 1TB disk? Thanks in advance -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: fdisk issues - external drive.
Kevin Kempter wrote: Hi All; I'm running Fedora 10 KDE 4.2 I have a new Lacie 1TB external drive. When I plug it in via USB or eSATA cable it's instantly recognized by Fedora. However I want the drive to contain an ext3 filesystem. So I do this: 1) # fsisk device 2) delete all existing partitions 3) create a new primary partition 4) I'm prompted for the partition number - I choose 1 5) Im prompted for the First cylinder - again I choose 1 then Fdisk goes back to the main menu, I'm never prompted for the size. If I print the partition table I see this: Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sdc1: 10 MB, 10484736 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x73736572 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdc1p1 1 1 8001 83 Linux Start and end both at 1 I suspect is wrong. How do I make fdisk change the ending value so the size is the full size of my 1TB disk? Thanks in advance I think FDisk is known to have issues with a single partition of this size. Try using parted to partition the disk instead. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
