[Durham] Removing LVM

[David Coulson]

mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb1

Something I am missing?

On 2/19/12 8:07 PM, Andrew Glass wrote:
> Morning all :)
> Im tearing my hair out here (I dont have much left so could do with 
> keeping some :P )
> 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
> Disk /dev/sdb: 33 MB, 33348608 bytes
> 14 heads, 55 sectors/track, 84 cylinders, total 65134 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
> Disk identifier: 0xdd6f3073
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdb1            2048       65133       31543   83  Linux
> Can anyone point me in the right direction for removing lvm and 
> getting its size back please?
> Cheers
> Andy
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