<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 3:43 PM, David A. De Graaf <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dad@datix.us">dad@datix.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 03:26:12PM +0000, Marc Ferguson wrote:<br>
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> I ran the fdisk too:<br>
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> [root@fergatron ~]# fdisk -l /dev/sdb1<br>
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> Disk /dev/sdb1: 320.0 GB, 320070288384 bytes<br>
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38912 cylinders<br>
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes<br>
> Disk identifier: 0x00000000<br>
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> Disk /dev/sdb1 doesn't contain a valid partition table<br>
</div>> [root@fergatron ~]#Â <br>
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You never run fdisk on a disk partition, always the disk itself.<br>
Try<br>
fdisk -l /dev/sdb<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br>Oh..<div><br></div><div><div>[root@fergatron ~]# fdisk -l /dev/sdb</div><div><br></div><div>Disk /dev/sdb: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes</div><div>255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders</div>
<div>Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes</div><div>Disk identifier: 0x0b99f72f</div><div><br></div><div> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System</div><div>/dev/sdb1 1 38913 312568641 83 Linux</div>
<div>[root@fergatron ~]# </div><div><br></div><div>I'm not fully comprehending these outputs. Do they indicate anything of significance?</div><br>-- <br>Marc F.<br><br>"When life gives me lemons... I make Linuxaide, hmm good stuff!"<br>
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