FDISK problems

[Joachim Backes]

woodson2 wrote:
> 
> 
> 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?
>>
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> 
> Mike, if you mean by reformat to write to use "w' to write to the partition
> table....yes

I think, he meant: mkfs.

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Joachim Backes <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de>

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