FDisk Help
I have three physical drives in my system--/dev/sda is presumably my
boot drive, which shows up as six devices in /dev:
/dev/sda1,2,5,6,7,8. Additionally, there's a CD-ROM drive, and a 250GB
standard rotating disk. My boot partition is located on a 120GB SSD,
which I presume is /dev/sda, is divided as follows according to df:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 8518920 879012 7184128 11% /
/dev/sda7 368615 2058 343005 1% /tmp
/dev/sda5 2817056 178752 2475488 7% /var
/dev/sda8 89493696 57076 84867532 1% /home
What, then, are /dev/sda2 and /dev/sda6? I tried looking at them with
FDisk and got the following:
For /dev/sda2: Failed to read extended partition table
(offset=5858805): Invalid argument
For /dev/sda6: device contains a valid 'swap' signature, it's strongly
recommended to wipe the device by command wipefs(8) if this setup is
unexpected to avoid possible collisions.
Device does not contain a recognized partition table.
Created a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0xa9732d81.
Could this one be the 250GB drive? If so, how do I handle this
equivalently in Debian, equivalent to how, say, Windows handles it in
Disk Management, by laying down a partition, formatting it, and
creating a mountable volume that's there every time the system boots?
I actually tried answering my own questions by looking at an other
running system to see how this is done, but the system is a different
distro, not Debian's, and even though the device is mounted and ready
for use when the system boots, it's not in fstab, so I'm thinking the
disk itself is the problem, with either no partition or filesystem on
it. Am I on the right track?
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