[PLUG] Hard drive: size discrepancy

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Sun Nov 11 00:14:51 UTC 2018


On Sat, 10 Nov 2018, Galen Seitz wrote:

> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/my_raw_scratch_disk bs=1M count=1
>
> This will zero the first megabyte of the disk, wiping any existing
> partition table. Then try partitioning again. Be sure you are using the
> whole device and not a partion (i.e. /dev/sdX and not /dev/sdXN).

galen,

   Thank you. The drive is seen as /dev/sdb and that's why I was puzzled that
not all 3T were seen.

   A task for tomorrow morning.

Best regards,

Rich



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