fdisk issues - external drive.

[Clint Dilks]

Kevin Kempter wrote:
> Hi All;
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> I'm running Fedora 10 & KDE 4.2
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> 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:
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> 1) # fsisk <device>
> 2) delete all existing partitions
> 3) create a new primary partition
> 4) I'm prompted for the partition number - I choose 1
> 5) Im prompted for the First cylinder - again I choose 1
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> then Fdisk goes back to the main menu, I'm never prompted for the 
> size. If I print the partition table I see this:
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> Command (m for help): p
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> Disk /dev/sdc1: 10 MB, 10484736 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x73736572
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> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sdc1p1 1 1 8001 83 Linux
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> Start and end both at 1 I suspect is wrong. How do I make fdisk change 
> the ending value so the size is the full size of my 1TB disk?
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> Thanks in advance
I think FDisk is known to have issues with a single partition of this 
size.  Try using parted to partition the disk instead.