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 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. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines