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12 November 2012

279. Formatting and adding a disk with fdisk

I've got a box with two harddrives -- sda (160 gb) has debian and sdb has CentOS (500 gb). I never use CentOS and I need the space for debian.

sudo fdisk -l
WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sda'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted. Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders, total 312581808 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 312581807 156290903+ ee GPT Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x0007e385 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 63 32772599 16386268+ 83 Linux /dev/sdb2 32772600 40965749 4096575 83 Linux /dev/sdb3 40965750 43006004 1020127+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sdb4 43006005 976768064 466881030 5 Extended /dev/sdb5 43006068 976768064 466880998+ 83 Linux

We're in 'luck' since we're only interested in killing sdb, and gparted wants a Display (this is done remotely).
So
sudo fdisk /dev/sdb
Command (m for help): d Partition number (1-5): 1 Command (m for help): d Partition number (1-5): 2 Command (m for help): d Partition number (1-5): 3 Command (m for help): d Partition number (1-5): 4 Command (m for help): w The partition table has been altered! Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table. Syncing disks.

So did it work?
 sudo fdisk -l
WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sda'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted. Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders, total 312581808 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 312581807 156290903+ ee GPT Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x0007e385 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
Time to create a new partition
sudo fdisk /dev/sdb
Command (m for help): n Partition type: p primary (0 primary, 0 extended, 4 free) e extended Select (default p): p Partition number (1-4, default 1): Using default value 1 First sector (2048-976773167, default 2048): Using default value 2048 Last sector, +sectors or +size{K,M,G} (2048-976773167, default 976773167): Using default value 976773167 Command (m for help): w The partition table has been altered! Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table. Syncing disks.

Did it work?
sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb
Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes 81 heads, 63 sectors/track, 191411 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x0007e385 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 2048 976773167 488385560 83 Linux
Create a file system:
sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb1
mke2fs 1.42.5 (29-Jul-2012) Filesystem label= OS type: Linux Block size=4096 (log=2) Fragment size=4096 (log=2) Stride=0 blocks, Stripe width=0 blocks 30531584 inodes, 122096390 blocks 6104819 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user First data block=0 Maximum filesystem blocks=4294967296 3727 block groups 32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group 8192 inodes per group Superblock backups stored on blocks: 32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208, 4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000, 23887872, 71663616, 78675968, 102400000 Allocating group tables: done Writing inode tables: done Creating journal (32768 blocks): done Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done
Let's automount it:
mkdir /home/me/scratch

and edit /etc/fstab
/dev/sdb1  /home/me/scratch    ext4    defaults        0       2

You're done.