Internal Backup Hard Drive - No Partitions, No Known Disklabel Type
by samtsco from LinuxQuestions.org on (#54K8K)
I don't know what I did when I tried to format it, but I have been using a backup internal hard drive to back up files, and I remember intending to give it just one partition but somehow ended up with a drive that when I type fdisk -l, it gives me:
Disk /dev/sdb: 465.8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimal/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
So there are several questions about this I could ask, but the one thing I am interested in is, how can I find out what type of formatting this has? It must be of some type, right? Or it wouldn't be writing my files.
Or should I just start over, and make sure this is partitioned and formatted in a standard fashion?
Disk /dev/sdb: 465.8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimal/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
So there are several questions about this I could ask, but the one thing I am interested in is, how can I find out what type of formatting this has? It must be of some type, right? Or it wouldn't be writing my files.
Or should I just start over, and make sure this is partitioned and formatted in a standard fashion?