Bugzilla from joachim.backes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > woodson2 wrote: >> >> >> Mike Wright-4 wrote: >>> woodson2 wrote: >>>> OS= Fedora 10 >>>> >>>> I have a secondary 250GB disk of which I created a 50G partition on to >>>> try >>>> and set-up an LFS system. I finished with the LFS system and now I want >>>> to >>>> destroy the partition and reclaim all of the 250GB. So i simply ran >>>> fdisk >>>> /dev/sdb and deleted the 2 Linux partitions ( one 83 and one swap). I >>>> then >>>> created a new partition as primary partition #1. fdisk appears to see >>>> the >>>> entire disk....I'm able to start at cylinder 1 and end at 30401 which >>>> is >>>> 250GB, however when i mount the partition it's shows as only >>>> 50G.....What >>>> the hell is going on here??? >>> >>> Simple question: did you remember to reformat the new partition? >>> >>> -- >>> fedora-list mailing list >>> fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx >>> To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >>> Guidelines: >>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines >>> >>> >> >> Mike, if you mean by reformat to write to use "w' to write to the >> partition >> table....yes > > I think, he meant: mkfs. > > -- > > Joachim Backes <joachim.backes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines > Doh!....I've done this a thousand times...I need to take a vacation...Forgot to make the filesystem...going to kill myself now..Thanks.. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/FDISK-problems-tp22744486p22745018.html Sent from the Fedora List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
