How to determine what partition is still not formatted?

[Paul Smith]

On 12/31/06, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> > The disk where I suspect that there is some unformatted
> > space is the following ('fdisk output'):
> >
> > Disk /dev/hde: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
> > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> >
> >    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> > /dev/hde1   *           1       10000    80324968+  83  Linux
> > /dev/hde2           10001       19457    75963352+  8e  Linux LVM
>
> Well, I suppose it could have been set up, but not actually used.  Do
> you know how to mount LVMs?  If so, mount it and have a look.
>
> Where you've got /dev/hde2 entries in your fstab file, you'd
> use /dev/VolGroup.. instead (list your /dev/Vol* files to find out what
> to use).
>
> A WWW search for lvm fstab entries should get you some examples to
> follow.

Thanks, Tim. I am now sure that there is nothing in hde2.

Paul