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Old 03-27-2009
FDISK problems

OS= Fedora 10

I have a secondary 250GB disk of which I created a 50G partition on to try and set-up an LFS system. I finished with the LFS system and now I want to destroy the partition and reclaim all of the 250GB. So i simply ran fdisk /dev/sdb and deleted the 2 Linux partitions ( one 83 and one swap). I then created a new partition as primary partition #1. fdisk appears to see the entire disk....I'm able to start at cylinder 1 and end at 30401 which is 250GB, however when i mount the partition it's shows as only 50G.....What the hell is going on here???
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Old 03-27-2009
Did you make a new filesystem?

Please post the output of fdisk -l
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Old 03-30-2009
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Originally Posted by Neo
Did you make a new filesystem?

Please post the output of fdisk -l

Guhh.....Forgot to make the filesystem.....Thanks for responding...Now I shall go kill myself..
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