On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 09:00 -0700, 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 No i means running mkfs on the partition. > > > Here's the out put of parted and fdisk. Thanks for your help.. > > Parted output > > GNU Parted 1.8.8 > Using /dev/sdb > Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands. > (parted) p > Model: ATA WDC WD2500AAJS-0 (scsi) > Disk /dev/sdb: 250GB > Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B > Partition Table: msdos > > Number Start End Size Type File system Flags > 2 32.3kB 250GB 250GB primary ext3 > > > Fdisk output > > fdisk -l /dev/sdb > > Disk /dev/sdb: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > Disk identifier: 0x23e7d3fd > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sdb2 1 30401 244196001 83 Linux > > > > > -- > View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/FDISK-problems-tp22744486p22744627.html > Sent from the Fedora List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > -- ======================================================================= There are twenty-five people left in the world, and twenty-seven of them are hamburgers. -- Ed Sanders ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
