On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 8:53 AM, woodson2 <mlstarling31(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
OS= Fedora 10
I have a secondary 250GB disk of which I created a 50G partition on to try
and set-up an LFS system. I finished with the LFS system and now I want to
destroy the partition and reclaim all of the 250GB. So i simply ran fdisk
/dev/sdb and deleted the 2 Linux partitions ( one 83 and one swap). I then
created a new partition as primary partition #1. fdisk appears to see the
entire disk....I'm able to start at cylinder 1 and end at 30401 which is
250GB, however when i mount the partition it's shows as only 50G.....What
the hell is going on here???
Using "w" from fdisk "writes table to disk and exits"
At the CLI do "partprobe" after changing the partition layout in a disk.
"partprobe is a program that informs the operating system
kernel of partition table
changes, by requesting that the operating system re-read the partition table"
so "w" does something to the disk, partprobe tells the OS what was
done on the disk.
~af