On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, kevin kempter wrote:
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 ?
Probably you need to format the partition: see mke2fs
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