On Sat, 08 Oct 2011 09:57:38 -0400, Mark Neidorff wrote: > 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.
What toolset did you use to create the partition and formatting the unit? > 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) Weird, indeed. What does gparted/cfdisk say? Just to have another opinion ;-) > 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) "fdisk" (as its own man page states) is not the recommended tool for making partitions, but parted or cfdisk, I would try with any of those. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- 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/pan.2011.10.08.17.30...@gmail.com
