Reformatting external drive with parted & mkfs: "Found a atari partition table in /dev/sdb1"
by anoid from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5MY8C)
I've got a new 2TB Toshiba external drive and I'm staring at a message which says
root@slacktop:~# mkfs.ext4 -m0 /dev/sdb1 | tee ~/refmt-xt2c.out
mke2fs 1.45.5 (07-Jan-2020)
Found a atari partition table in /dev/sdb1
Proceed anyway? (y,N)
This comes after following a tutorial which had me do
root@slacktop:~# parted /dev/sdb --script -- mklabel gpt
root@slacktop:~# parted /dev/sdb --script -- mkpart xt2cdata ext4 0% 100%
(I think I possibly went wrong in not using the tutorial's -F flag in
mkfs.ext4 -F /dev/sdb1
because that seemed unnecessary and unwise but maybe it's for exactly this and I should just hit 'y'?)
I used to know how to do this with fdisk but ever since this gpt crap, I've had nothing but trouble. I'm pretty sure I had this exact message before and somehow got past it but I don't remember what I did. I did come across someone else with the same issue
http://gparted-forum.surf4.info/viewtopic.php?id=17729
but the idea of resizing the partition a couple of times doesn't seem quite right to me - I'd like to just say Y and have it Just Work or say N and be able to fix it some other way, but I'm not sure what'll happen after I say either.
On a newish laptop with a non-current Slackware-current... and when oh when is Slack 15 ever going to "BE READY"? Anyway - using parted-3.3-x86_64-1 and e2fsprogs-1.45.5-x86_64-1. Any tips will be greatly appreciated.
root@slacktop:~# mkfs.ext4 -m0 /dev/sdb1 | tee ~/refmt-xt2c.out
mke2fs 1.45.5 (07-Jan-2020)
Found a atari partition table in /dev/sdb1
Proceed anyway? (y,N)
This comes after following a tutorial which had me do
root@slacktop:~# parted /dev/sdb --script -- mklabel gpt
root@slacktop:~# parted /dev/sdb --script -- mkpart xt2cdata ext4 0% 100%
(I think I possibly went wrong in not using the tutorial's -F flag in
mkfs.ext4 -F /dev/sdb1
because that seemed unnecessary and unwise but maybe it's for exactly this and I should just hit 'y'?)
I used to know how to do this with fdisk but ever since this gpt crap, I've had nothing but trouble. I'm pretty sure I had this exact message before and somehow got past it but I don't remember what I did. I did come across someone else with the same issue
http://gparted-forum.surf4.info/viewtopic.php?id=17729
but the idea of resizing the partition a couple of times doesn't seem quite right to me - I'd like to just say Y and have it Just Work or say N and be able to fix it some other way, but I'm not sure what'll happen after I say either.
On a newish laptop with a non-current Slackware-current... and when oh when is Slack 15 ever going to "BE READY"? Anyway - using parted-3.3-x86_64-1 and e2fsprogs-1.45.5-x86_64-1. Any tips will be greatly appreciated.