| Hi List; I have a 320G SATA drive that used to have Fedora 8 on it, I no longer need it as a main Linux drive so I want to use is as USB storage. However I'm having issues trying to fdisk the drive into a single partition. Here's what I did : 1) put the drive in a USB 2.0 enclosure 2) plugged the USB into my Fedora box 3) as root ran 'fdisk /dev/sdb' 4) removed all partitions on the drive and wrote the changes 5) rebooted my Fedora box 6) ran 'fdisk /dev/sdb' again at this point I get this if I print the partition table: Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sdb: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x0000733a 7) added a single partition: - choose 'p' for primary partition - choose '1' for partition number - choose '1' for the first cyllinder - choose '38913' for the last cyllinder Like this: Command (m for help): n Command action e extended p primary partition (1-4) p Partition number (1-4): 1 First cylinder (1-38913, default 1): 1 Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1-38913, default 38913): 38913 8) wrote the changes (w) 9) I went back into fdisk and printed the partition table: Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sdb: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x0000733a Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 1 38913 312568641 83 Linux 10) rebooted the Fedora box again 11) plugged in the USB drive KDE asks what to do - I say open in a new window. What I see is the data from my old /boot file system Also now if I do a 'df -h' I see the second (USB) drive as only the size of the old /boot file system (1.9G) not the 320G I expect to see: $ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 48G 35G 11G 77% / /dev/sda1 190M 19M 162M 11% /boot tmpfs 506M 364K 505M 1% /dev/shm /dev/sdb1 1.9G 52M 1.8G 3% /media/-boot1 What am I doing wrong ? Thanks in advance... /Kevin |
