On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 1:17 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Jul 2018 11:07:36 -0700 > wes <[email protected]> dijo: > > >try running (as root): > > > >file -s /dev/sdd > >file -s /dev/sdd1 > > > >and see if they say anything interesting? > > sudo file -s /dev/sdd > /dev/sdd: DOS/MBR boot sector; partition 1 : ID=0x83, start-CHS > (0x0,32,33), end-CHS (0x3ff,254,63), startsector 2048, 491517952 > sectors, extended partition table (last) > > sudo file -s /dev/sdd1 > /dev/sdd1: Linux rev 1.0 ext4 filesystem data, > UUID=8c2abe1e-dd2e-4aa1-b3dd-3bc07f9c82c3, volume name > "256GB-1" (extents) (large files) (huge files) > > Why did the first command above mention DOS? I think they were > originally formatted NTFS. > In that case, it is referring to the type of partition table. The relevant options there are either "msdos" (aka "MBR" but that is rarely used by itself due to the term being used for multiple things, so it would be ambiguous) or "gpt". Nothing jumps out at me there as being problematic. So I guess it's time to try again. > Also, it is a strong possibility that my overnight wipe out with Gnome > Disk Utility is the cause of present tribulations. Is there a command > line way to do this that might be more reliable, so I can start over > with something known to be clean? > > Gnome Disk Utility and GParted are partition management tools. They do filesystem stuff too, but I would prefer to do that myself. So, try mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdd1 and see what that gets you. -wes _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
