How to use sfdisk

cthomas · 02-01-2007, 08:00 PM

I have a sata drive and when I do sfdisk -l /dev/sda1 (that is how it is listed in/dev)it returns "Warning: start=63 - this looks lake a partition rather than the entire disk. Use the -- force option if you really want this." [U]This is an entire disk[./U] I have looked at a lot of examples and they all show this sfdisk /dev/hdc << EOF
0,407
,407
;
;
EOF
Which I don't understand. All I want is to make the whole drive one partition. I tried <start> <size> <id>; sfdisk /dev/sda1 0 298 L but it doesn't work. What do I need to type?

Emerson · 02-01-2007, 08:57 PM

sda - disk
sda1 - partition

Why you have chosen sfdisk? It is the trickiest fdisk.

cthomas · 02-02-2007, 08:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Emerson

sda - disk
sda1 - partition

Why you have chosen sfdisk? It is the trickiest fdisk.

Sorry I don't understand what you are saying. Are you saying not to use sdisk but to use fdisk? And to format my disk I just need to type in: sda - disk hit enter and then type in: sda1 - partition and hit inter?

Emerson · 02-02-2007, 08:45 AM

Easiest to use is cfdisk, if you do not have it use fdisk. cfdisk /dev/sda will let you edit the partition table for sda. This is not formatting, to format your partition(s) use mkfs. man mkfs.