On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 17:09 -0600, Kevin Kempter wrote:
> I have a new Lacie 1TB external drive. When I plug it in via USB or
> eSATA cable it's instantly recognized by Fedora. However I want the
> drive to contain an ext3 filesystem. So I do this:
>
>
>
> 1) # fsisk <device>
You ran fdisk on /dev/sdc1 - that's a partition, not the whole disk
device. Try running it on /dev/sdc instead.
> Disk /dev/sdc1: 10 MB, 10484736 bytes
^^^^
This shows fdisk is operating on the partition sdc1, not the whole disk
(sdc). You want to see something like this instead:
# fdisk /dev/sdc
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sdc: 65 MB, 65517568 bytes
3 heads, 42 sectors/track, 1015 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 126 * 512 = 64512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 1 1015 63924 83 Linux
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sdc1p1 1 1 8001 83 Linux
Again, you're getting this funny "sdc1p1" naming style because you are
creating a nested partition table (partitioning a partition) rather than
partitioning the whole disk device.
Regards,
Bryn.
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