> 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
Thank you. Much obliged.
On Wed, 15 May 2024 15:55:20 -0400
Jerry Feldman wrote:
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> On Wed, May 15, 2024, 3:48 P
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
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
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
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"
