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I usually stick with 'cfdisk' for deleting and creating partitions.
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cfdisk /dev/sdb<br>
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Can you delete the partition then create a new one using 'entire
disk'?<br>
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Dougie<br>
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On 20/02/12 01:07, Andrew Glass wrote:
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<div>Morning all :)</div>
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<div>Im tearing my hair out here (I dont have much left so could
do with keeping some :P )</div>
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<div>I have been given a 1tb drive that was formerly part of an
LVM system. I would like to flatten it and format it as
ext4.....its driving me nuts! using fdisk -l it only shows as</div>
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<div>Disk /dev/sdb: 33 MB, 33348608 bytes<br>
14 heads, 55 sectors/track, 84 cylinders, total 65134 sectors<br>
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes<br>
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes<br>
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes<br>
Disk identifier: 0xdd6f3073</div>
<div> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id
System<br>
/dev/sdb1 2048 65133 31543 83 Linux<br>
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<div>Can anyone point me in the right direction for removing lvm
and getting its size back please?</div>
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<div>Cheers</div>
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<div>Many thanks and cheers! :)</div>
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