I'm not sure if everything is OK, or if I have to redo what I did. For backup I purchased a USB 3, 1.5 TB external drive. (Using it USB 2 mode) The drive came formatted NTFS. Not wanting to hassle with that, I reformatted it as EXT4. That went fine, or so it seems.
Now when I run fdisk, the partition still shows up as NTFS. Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sdb: 1500.3 GB, 1500301910016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 182401 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x3e12cce7 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 1 182401 1465136001 7 HPFS/NTFS ...but mount shows an ext4 filesystem: root@Mark:/tmp# mount /dev/sda2 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime) .... /dev/sdb1 on /media/339ca221-4ec1-45c2-9969-af0d8b5ffb0b type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks) So....should I fdisk the drive, delete what appears to fdisk to be an NTFS partition, create an ext4 and reformat it? (I'm guessing that this is why I'm getting errors from my backup program) Thanks, Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201110080957.38090.m...@neidorff.com
