[CentOS] Help setting up USB drive
John Doe
jdmls at yahoo.com
Fri May 29 08:27:13 UTC 2009
From: Robert Fitzpatrick <lists at webtent.net>
> I have my 640GB USB drive connected to a CentOS 5 server and using
> fdisk, it seems to show a partition of the correct size, /dev/sdd1, but
> after mounting, the drive shows only 244M size. Does the message
> received when running fdisk below mean I should reformat this drive, I
> can't seemed to figure out how to do that with fdisk. Can someone tell
> me how to reformat, if needed? The drive is empty, I formatted a while
> back on a Debian machine....
To reformat:
umount /dev/sdd1
mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdd1 (use '-c' to check for bad blocks or/and '-m 0' to get the max space... see the manpage)
JD
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