Timeline for fdisk isn't showing my hard drive as properly formatted (but it is)
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| Oct 11, 2014 at 2:20 | comment | added | Michael Hampton | @MaxMackie Only the MS-DOS version of fdisk does that. Linux fdisk has never erased newly created partitions. | |
| Jan 16, 2013 at 2:51 | vote | accept | nopcorn | ||
| Jan 16, 2013 at 2:45 | comment | added | Michael Hampton | You see how the parameters are the same for /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdc1? The same. | |
| Jan 16, 2013 at 2:43 | comment | added | nopcorn | When you say matched, you mean just being made the same way. Like the way I mentioned above? I'll give this a try -- thank you very much. | |
| Jan 16, 2013 at 2:39 | comment | added | Michael Hampton | As long as the newly created partition matches identically to the other two, then it should come out fine. Unlike DOS fdisk, Linux fdisk doesn't erase anything within the partition. | |
| Jan 16, 2013 at 2:32 | comment | added | nopcorn | I basically just used fdisk to make the partition. sudo fdisk /dev/sda, n p 1 t 8e w. Then I added it as a physical volume etc. So are you saying I can remake the partition with fdisk without losing the data? Or is the data pretty much lost at this point? | |
| Jan 16, 2013 at 2:03 | history | answered | Michael Hampton | CC BY-SA 3.0 |