RE: Formatting an unused partition
I am assuming you have no software raid devices like md0 etc as this would hide hdb10
regards
Steven
-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Jones
Sent: Wednesday, 20 October 2004 11:12 a.m.
To: [KS]; debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: RE: Formatting an unused partition
Do a df -h and look for hdb10 to make sure it is not mounted/used.
The next stage depends on how paranoid you are, at this point if you are confident its unused you can make a file system on it. If not mount it and go see if amything is in it.
regards
Steven
-----Original Message-----
From: [KS] [mailto:boneywasawarriorvayayix@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, 20 October 2004 10:24 a.m.
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Formatting an unused partition
Bonjour tous,
I have two HDDs (40+80G). The smaller one (/dev/hda)
has WinXP on it(hardly used), and bigger one
(/dev/hdb) has Debian Sid installed. I was checking
free space on /dev/hdb and by chance summed up all the
partition sizes. I was surprised to see that the sum
was considerably less than 80GB(I didn't even remember
that it was there). I did a cat /proc/partitions and
it showed that there was an ~18GB partition
(/dev/hdb10). Then I checked with cfdisk and it showed
the partion as FS=Linux but no type.
What are the various options that I use to format that
partion and use it? I did read about cfdisk but I just
want to make sure that I'm doing the right thing as it
is being done as root.
Thanks,
/KS
PS: The output of cfdisk is copied below:
Disk Drive: /dev/hdb
Size: 80026361856 bytes, 80.0
GB
Heads: 255 Sectors per Track: 63
Cylinders: 9729
Name Flags Part Type FS Type
[Label] Size (MB)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
hdb1 Boot Primary Linux ext3
197.41
hdb2 Primary Linux ext3
6999.72
hdb3 Primary Linux ext3
1998.75
hdb5 Logical Linux ext3
1998.75
hdb6 Logical Linux swap
1003.49
hdb7 Logical Linux ext3
501.75
hdb8 Logical Linux ext3
20003.89
hdb9 Logical Linux ext3
27003.60
hdb10 Logical Linux
20316.45
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