FDISK problems
Mike Wright
mike.wright at mailinator.com
Fri Mar 27 15:56:23 UTC 2009
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?
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