I'm coming into this rather late since I'd somehow been unsubscribed
for the past month or so. Anywho...
What does the command "blkid /dev/sdX" say? If the device is
partitioned then it should return the partition type (PTTYPE):
/dev/sda: PTUUID="2d5ed796-ad53-4317-a7bc-2e0ad85d90d1" PTTYPE="gpt"
One thing you can do is to set up a new partition table. Doing that does
not erase.
Formatting does overwrite data. But, I would practice with a thumb driver.
On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 7:22 PM Kent Borg wrote:
> On 5/15/24 15:44, John Abreau wrote:
> > my other disks were close
> > to full when I
On 5/15/24 15:44, John Abreau wrote:
my other disks were close
to full when I purchased the 18TB disk. To back it up, I'd need to purchase
yet another disk
Indeed.
I once heard as a metaphor* that a circus needs at least two elephants,
because if one dies, it will require the second elephant
Not sure why we're still beating this dead horse, but that's just not the
case. When I formatted the drive, I formatted sdx1.
It's not a matter of opinion, nor is it a subject for voting to decide what
happened.
The 18TB disk is the largest disk I own, and all my other disks were close
to full wh
Thank you. Much obliged.
On Wed, 15 May 2024 15:55:20 -0400
Jerry Feldman wrote:
> I have no idea you were unsubscribed. I just added you back. A while
> back we had a conflict between https and http that has been causing
> an issue with the mailman admin panel.
>
> On Wed, May 15, 2024, 3:48 P
> From: John Abreau
> I have an 18TB external hard drive that recently suffered a loss. When I
> first set it up, I formatted it as a single partition with an xfs
> filesystem.
>From the messages, I tend to agree with Gregory Galperin that you
accidentally formatted sdx rather than sdx1, and the
