Re: Parted and a removable HDD (USB)

On 16/02/16 07:33, Andrew Greig via luv-main wrote:

Hi ,

I am trying to return a WD Elements HDD to a contiguous state, it had a Fat32 and an EXT2 partition, having deleted the 2 partitions to start again

Here is what I have in parted:

Model: WD 1600BEV External (scsi) Disk /dev/sdb: 160GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Disk Flags:

This disk should be around 850Gb

How do I overcome this difficulty, please?

I'd use fdisk and delete all partitions, then create a new one of the desired type covering the whole disk. Then mkfs.<part-type> /dev/sd?1 After that parted should be happy to bend it to your needs. Not sure where the 850Gb came from - the drive is 160x10^9 bytes.