* Terry Eck
Hello, Hope someone can shine some light on the problem I'm having. I've formatted several drives in the past and have not seen this problem.
I'm trying to use a 500G drive which was a linux system with swap.
I fdisk to delete all the old partitions and created one single partition. One strange thing is the partition starts at 2048. Had no choice. =========== The following is from fdisk
Disk /dev/sdc: 465.8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: gpt Disk identifier: 0x000af975
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sdc1 2048 976773167 976771120 465.8G 83 Linux =============
Try to format it with fsck.ext2 yields: e2fsck 1.43.3 (04-Sep-2016) ext2fs_open2: Bad magic number in super-block fsck.ext2: Superblock invalid, trying backup blocks... fsck.ext2: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/sdc1
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a valid ext2/ext3/ext4 filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2/ext3/ext4 filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock: e2fsck -b 8193 <device> or e2fsck -b 32768 <device>
/dev/sdc1 contains a swap file system
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Any ideas how to format this drive for use and a data storage/backup drive?
probably because "Disklabel type: gpt" try partitioning using parted/gparted -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo @ http://linuxcounter.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org