Re: Filesystem fdisk and mount disagree
On Sat, 08 Oct 2011 09:57:38 -0400, Mark Neidorff wrote:
> I'm not sure if everything is OK, or if I have to redo what I did.
>
> For backup I purchased a USB 3, 1.5 TB external drive. (Using it USB 2
> mode) The drive came formatted NTFS. Not wanting to hassle with that, I
> reformatted it as EXT4. That went fine, or so it seems.
What toolset did you use to create the partition and formatting the unit?
> Now when I run fdisk, the partition still shows up as NTFS. Command (m
> for help): p
>
> Disk /dev/sdb: 1500.3 GB, 1500301910016 bytes 255 heads, 63
> sectors/track, 182401 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 =
> 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O
> size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier:
> 0x3e12cce7
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sdb1 1 182401 1465136001 7 HPFS/NTFS
>
> ...but mount shows an ext4 filesystem:
>
> root@Mark:/tmp# mount
> /dev/sda2 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime) ....
> /dev/sdb1 on /media/339ca221-4ec1-45c2-9969-af0d8b5ffb0b type ext4
> (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks)
Weird, indeed.
What does gparted/cfdisk say? Just to have another opinion ;-)
> So....should I fdisk the drive, delete what appears to fdisk to be an
> NTFS partition, create an ext4 and reformat it? (I'm guessing that this
> is why I'm getting errors from my backup program)
"fdisk" (as its own man page states) is not the recommended tool for
making partitions, but parted or cfdisk, I would try with any of those.
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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