How to determine what partition is still not formatted?

[Tim]

On Sun, 2006-12-31 at 01:10 +0000, Paul Smith 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.